Managing Urbanization, Climate Change and Disasters in South Asia

This book provides insights into potential catastrophic events in South Asia's emerging urban landscape, highlighting the risks and vulnerabilities caused by geophysical location, climate change, and unplanned urbanization. It addresses disaster management, climate change manifestations, and urban setups under climate-change-induced risks. It also examines institutional mechanisms for DRR, CCA, and urban governance and suggests changes to mitigate these risks. The book emphasizes the need for integrated climate change and urban adaptation with state planning processes and presents a risk alleviation platform for collaboration among risk managers.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 469 pages
Publication date: 22 July 2021
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

This comprehensive book delves into the potential catastrophic events that could impact the emerging urban landscape in South Asia, driven by a combination of hazards, risks, and vulnerabilities inherent in the region's geophysical location, as well as the effects of climate change and unplanned urbanization. It sheds light on significant physio-graphic, demographic, geological, and geophysical indicators that are shaping the pattern and trend of urbanization in the region, which is of paramount importance in the face of emerging threats posed by climate change and demographic shifts.

The book addresses the disaster management scenario in South Asia, examining the manifestations of climate change in the region and the various urban setups that are vulnerable to climate-change-induced risks. It further explores the challenges of urbanization-based neo-risks and vulnerabilities, such as the growth of slum areas, waste piling and littering, health risks, groundwater contamination, air pollution, energy-dependent lifestyles, poverty, and socio-economic tensions.

In a critical examination, the book assesses the institutional mechanisms for disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate change adaptation (CCA), and urban governance, identifying areas for improvement to mitigate these risks. It emphasizes the need for enhanced administrative and financial structures within local urban bodies, as well as the integration of climate change and urban adaptation into state planning processes. Additionally, the book proposes a risk alleviation platform to bring together risk managers from various fields, fostering collaborative efforts to address and minimize these risks.

By raising awareness and providing valuable insights, this book aims to assist urban planners and policymakers in developing effective strategies for resilient and sustainable urban development in South Asia, ensuring the well-being and prosperity of its cities and communities in the face of evolving challenges.

Weight: 771g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811524127
Edition number: 1st ed. 2020