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Megacities and the coast : risk, resilience and transformation

Pelling, Mark / Blackburn, Sophie

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Mega-urbanisation on the coast : global context and key trends in the twenty-first century / Sophie Blackburn and César Marques -- The environmental impacts of megacities on the coast / Antje Bruns -- Coastal megacities, environmental hazards and global environmental change / Andrea Young -- Contributions of coastal megacities to environmental changes at regional and global scales / Sue Grimmond -- Reducing risk from natural hazard, pollution and climate change in megacities and associated networks / Jessica Lamond -- Disaster risk reduction, climate change and development : interaction and integration / Joern Birkmann , Nina Qaiem Maqami and Qingnian Yu -- Case studies / Mark Pelling and Sophie Blackburn

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Megacities and the coast : risk, resilience and transformation

Pelling, Mark / Blackburn, Sophie

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Mega-urbanisation on the coast : global context and key trends in the twenty-first century / Sophie Blackburn and César Marques -- The environmental impacts of megacities on the coast / Antje Bruns -- Coastal megacities, environmental hazards and global environmental change / Andrea Young -- Contributions of coastal megacities to environmental changes at regional and global scales / Sue Grimmond -- Reducing risk from natural hazard, pollution and climate change in megacities and associated networks / Jessica Lamond -- Disaster risk reduction, climate change and development : interaction and integration / Joern Birkmann , Nina Qaiem Maqami and Qingnian Yu -- Case studies / Mark Pelling and Sophie Blackburn

Megacities and the coast : risk, resilience and transformation

Pelling, Mark / Blackburn, Sophie

Table of contents

Mega-urbanisation on the coast : global context and key trends in the twenty-first century / Sophie Blackburn and César Marques -- The environmental impacts of megacities on the coast / Antje Bruns -- Coastal megacities, environmental hazards and global environmental change / Andrea Young -- Contributions of coastal megacities to environmental changes at regional and global scales / Sue Grimmond -- Reducing risk from natural hazard, pollution and climate change in megacities and associated networks / Jessica Lamond -- Disaster risk reduction, climate change and development : interaction and integration / Joern Birkmann , Nina Qaiem Maqami and Qingnian Yu -- Case studies / Mark Pelling and Sophie Blackburn

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Title:

Megacities and the coast : risk, resilience and transformation

Contributors:

Pelling, Mark / Blackburn, Sophie

Publication date:

2013

Size:

XXIV, 245, [16] S.

Remarks:

graph. Darst., Kt.
Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9780415815048 , 9780415815123

Type of media:

Book

Type of material:

Print

Language:

English

Keywords:

Katastrophenmanagement , Verstädterung , Küstenstadt , Klimaänderung , Megastadt Coastal zone management , Urbanization , Urban ecology (Sociology) , City planning

Classification:

BKL: 74.72 Stadtplanung, kommunale Planung / 74.12 Stadtgeographie, Siedlungsgeographie
RVK: AR 14120 / RB 10633 / RB 10295
DDC: 307.76

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