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

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Description xxiv, 245 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Based on a major international study, this volume provides a synthesis of scientific knowledge on megacity urbanization on the coast, environmental impacts, risks and management choices, including a focus on adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk management. 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. It presents the international policy and academic community with an unbiased and high quality assessment of the state-of-the art in areas of social-ecological systems interaction. 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 focusses primarily at points of intersection between large-scale urbanization and the coast. The book responds to this gap by providing the first global synthesis of megacity and large urban region urbanization 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"--Publisher description.
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 Ferraz Young -- Contributions of coastal megacities to environmental changes at regional and global scales / C.S.B. 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.
Subject Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Coastal zone management.
Coastal zone management.
City planning -- Environmental aspects.
City planning -- Environmental aspects.
Urbanization -- Environmental aspects.
Urbanization -- Environmental aspects.
Urbanization.
Added Author Pelling, Mark.
Blackburn, Sophie.
ISBN 0415815045 (hardback) (alkaline paper)
0415815126 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
0203066421 (e-book) (alkaline paper)
9780203066423 (e-book)
9780415815048 (hardback) (alkaline paper)
9780415815123 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
9780203066423 (e-book) (alkaline paper)
Standard No. 9798138