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The City in Need: Urban Resilience and City Management in Disruptive Disease Outbreak Events
The City in Need: Urban Resilience and City Management in Disruptive Disease Outbreak Events
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This book explores urban resilience measures and city management issues during disruptive disease outbreak events, focusing on cities' preparedness, responsiveness, and reflectiveness. It is an essential guide for decision-makers, city authorities, planners, healthcare and public health authorities, and communities and businesses. It offers practical measures to support the development of tailor-made strategies for outbreak control and containment, institutional rearrangements, management of urban systems, and healthiness of society.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 09 June 2021
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore
This groundbreaking book fills a significant void in academic research by delving into the realm of 'urban resilience measures and 'city management issues during disruptive disease outbreak events. Drawing upon the concept of 'resilience thinking, it addresses crucial concerns related to preparedness, responsiveness, and reflection in the face of outbreaks, with a specific focus on cities and their strategies for combating a wide range of adversities and uncertainties caused by such events. This comprehensive handbook serves as an indispensable guide for decision-makers, city authorities, planners, healthcare and public health officials, as well as communities and businesses that grapple with disease outbreak scenarios. Moreover, it provides a valuable set of practical measures to facilitate the development of tailored strategies in the form of an action plan. These strategies should encompass outbreak control and containment measures, institutional rearrangements, management of urban systems, and the overall health and well-being of society.
Organized into six chapters, this book explores essential topics related to 'urban resilience and 'city management for preparedness, action plans, and responsiveness planning. Furthermore, it presents a comprehensive urban resilience approach employed in recent outbreaks in Chinese cities, which has the potential to be applied globally to enhance resilience and maximize the practicality of urban resilience while minimizing urban vulnerabilities during disease outbreaks.
Highlighting key themes such as maintaining societal well-being, community engagement, and multi-sectoral city management enhancement, this book offers a unique blend of research, practices, and lessons learned to assist cities in need. By addressing the challenges posed by disruptive disease outbreaks, this book contributes to the development of resilient and sustainable urban environments that can better withstand and recover from such crises.
Weight: 498g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811554896
Edition number: 1st ed. 2020
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