Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor: Cities Building Resilience for a Changing World (Urban Development Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821388452 ISBN 13: 9780821388457

Publisher: World Bank Publications, 2012

Synopsis

"Poor people living in slums are at particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change and natural hazards. They live on the most vulnerable lands within cities, typically areas that are deemed undesirable by others and are thus affordable. Residents are exposed to the impacts of landslides, sea-level rise, flooding, and other hazards. Exposure to risk is exacerbated by overcrowded living conditions, lack of adequate infrastructure and services, unsafe housing, inadequate nutrition, and poor health. These conditions can turn a natural hazard or change in climate into a disaster, and result in the loss of basic services, damage or destruction to homes, loss of livelihoods, malnutrition, disease, disability, and loss of life.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821388452
• ISBN 13: 9780821388457
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Baker Judy L.