Climate Change; Disaster Risk; and the Urban Poor - Cities Building Resilience for a Changing World

Judy L Baker

ISBN 10: 0821388452 / ISBN 13: 9780821388457

Published by World Bank Publications, Washington DC, 2012

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320 pages (xx, 300), diagrams, charts tables, maps &c, index; publisher's green pictorial card covers. Fine, no marks of previous ownership. Pictures show this actual book. UK orders are post-free.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Climate Change; Disaster Risk; and the Urban Poor - Cities Building Resilience for a Changing World
• Publisher: World Bank Publications, Washington DC
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821388452
• ISBN 13: 9780821388457
• Binding: Softcover/Paperback
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Academic Books
  • Architecture. Building and Interiors
  • Science, Engineering, Mathematics &c.

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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.