Gebundenes Buch

Urban Resilience to Droughts and Floods

The Role of Policies and Governance

Herausgeber: Tortajada, Cecilia; Harrington, Larry; Horne, James

Beschreibung

This book focuses on policies and governance on how to build the resilience of cities to droughts and floods. There are discussions on how cities prepare for, cope with, learn from, manage, and recover from these extreme events. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.

Autor

Cecilia Tortajada is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Water Policy in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Water Resources Development. James Horne is the former Deputy Secretary of the Australian Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities and is now a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Larry Harrington is the former Research Director of the CGIAR Challenge Programme on Water and Food (CPWF) and is now an Adjunct Professor at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 607g
• ISBN-13: 9780367002121
• ISBN-10: 0367002124
• Artikelnr.: 57004604