Megacities and the coast : risk, resilience and transformation / edited by Mark Pelling and Sophie Blackburn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pelling, Mark.

Blackburn, Sophie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Coastal zone management.

City planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning.

Urbanization--Environmental aspects.

Urbanization.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 245 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

Based on a major international study, this volume provides a synthesis of scientific knowledge on the urbanization processes, environmental impacts, policy response options, and disaster risk management challenges that are associated with coastal megacity development. It is the primary output of a major international scientific project sponsored by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, the Land-Ocean Interactions at the Coastal Zone programme of IHDP/IGBP and others. It brings together the work of over 60 contributing authors and an international review board. This volume presents the international policy and academic community with an unbiased and high-quality assessment of social-ecological systems interaction in coastal megacities. One of its main messages is that while we know a great deal about megacities of more than ten million people and about urban processes, and about coasts and their physical and ecological processes (aquatic, physical and atmospheric), there is relatively little work that focuses primarily at points of intersection between these. The book responds to this gap by providing the first global synthesis of megacity and large urban region urbanisation on the coast. Its focus is on environmental and development challenges, climate change and disaster. It is interdisciplinary and brings together world-recognised scientists (including many IPCC lead authors) on urban climate and atmosphere, disaster risk management, demography and coastal environments. Book jacket.

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

Urban development, climate change and disaster risk reduction: interaction and integration / Joern Birkmann, Matthias Garschagen, Adriana Lopez, Mark Pelling, Nina Qaiem Maqami and Qingnian Yu

Case studies: governing social and environmental transformation in coastal megacities / Mark Pelling and Sophie Blackburn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415815048

0415815045

9780415815123

0415815126

OCLC:

812256219