Overview
- Discusses the implementation of risk reduction measures for individual homeowners and residents
- Highlights several international cities as case studies for disaster risk reduction initiatives
- Provides practical, sustainable solutions to a variety of natural hazard events
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This book provides an important overview of how climate-driven natural hazards like river or pluvial floods, droughts, heat waves or forest fires, continue to play a central role across the globe in the 21st century. Urban resilience has become an important term in response to climate change. Resilience describes the ability of a system to absorb shocks and depends on the vulnerability and recovery time of a system. A shock affects a system to the extent that it becomes vulnerable to the event. This book focus examines how private property-owners might implement such measures or improve their individual coping and adaptive capacity to respond to future events. The book looks at the existence of various planning, legal, financial incentives and psychological factors designed to encourage individuals to take an active role in natural hazard risk management and through the presentation of theoretical discussions and empirical cases shows how urban resilience can be achieved. Inaddition, the book guides the reader through different conceptual frameworks by showing how urban regions are trying to reach urban resilience on privately-owned land. Each chapter focuses on different cultural, socio-economic and political backgrounds to demonstrate how different institutional frameworks have an impact.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Thomas Thaler is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Mountain Risk Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
Thomas Hartmann is the chair of land policy and land management at the School of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany.
Lenka Slavíková is Associate Professor in public economics at J.E.P.University in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic.
Barbara Tempels is Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences at Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Homeowners and the Resilient City
Book Subtitle: Climate-Driven Natural Hazards and Private Land
Editors: Thomas Thaler, Thomas Hartmann, Lenka Slavíková, Barbara Tempels
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17763-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17762-0Published: 02 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17765-1Published: 03 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-17763-7Published: 01 January 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 301
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Urban Studies/Sociology, Public Policy, Climate, general