Addressing climate risk in coastal urban areas of East and Southeast Asia : connecting climate science, engineering and finance / edited by Dr. Bruce Chong (Fellow and Director of Climate & Sustainability at Arup).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chong, Bruce, editor.

EBSCOhost

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Economic aspects.

Climatic changes.

Civil engineering--Environmental aspects--East Asia.

Civil engineering.

Civil engineering--Environmental aspects--Southeast Asia.

Metropolitan areas--East Asia.

Metropolitan areas.

Metropolitan areas--Southeast Asia.

Uncertainty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025.

Contents:

Part I:

Climate change trends and challenges

1. Introduction

2. The climate science, infrastructure and finance landscape

Part II: -an integrated approach to assessing climate risk in infrastructure

3. Overall methodology

4. Localised projections for climate change modelling

5. Assessing infrastructure risk and resilience for typhoons and other extreme events

6. Enhancing infrastructure resilience

7. assessing financial risk and identifying opportunities for climate resilient infrastructure

8. Selecting gcms to improve accuracy of projections of tropical cyclone landfalling activity in East Asia

9. Using climate modelling to develop engineering design parameters for building services systems

10. an extended statistical and dynamic approach for assessing tropical cyclone and wind hazards in the western North Pacific (wnp) basin

Part III:

Case studies: Climate risk assessment and critical infrastructure adaptation

11. Identifying and evaluating critical infrastructure for climate hazard adaptation

12. Designing and upgrading drainage systems for climate hazards

13. integrating climate adaptation into planning, design and management of coastal infrastructure

14. designing buildings and infrastructure for wind hazards

15. Managing landslide risk

16. designing for extreme heat resilience in urban settings

17. damages analysis approach for east asia physical assets

18. Regulatory guidelines on climate risk management and related analytical tools

Part IV:

Summary

19. Summary and practical next steps.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9781805920861

1805920863

Publisher Number:

90104241060

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