Description
Megacities and the Coast
Risk, Resilience and Transformation
Coordinators: Pelling Mark, Blackburn Sophie
Language: EnglishSubjects for Megacities and the Coast:
Keywords
Megacities; Coast; Climate change; Disasters; Flooding; Urban planning; Coastal Megacities; Urban Heat Islands; Socioeconomic Development; Socio-economic Development; Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project; Sea Grass; Reduced Patch Sizes; GEC Impact; Disaster Risk Reduction; Sea Breeze Circulation; DKI Jakarta; Voc Ratio; Mitigate GHG Emission; City's Critical Infrastructure; Upwelling Favourable Winds; Mitigating Heat Stress; Radiative Forcing; Urban Soils; Urban Environmental Burdens; ICZM; Land Reclamation; Public Infrastructure; Peri Urban Interface; Cloud Microphysical Processes; Marine Spatial Planning
Publication date: 12-2013
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 12-2013
Support: Print on demand
Description
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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.
Executive Summary 1. Mega-Urbanisation on the Coast: Global Context and Key Trends in the Twenty-First Century 2. The Environmental Impacts of Megacities on the Coast 3. Coastal Megacities, Environmental Hazards and Global Environmental Change 4. Contributions of Coastal Megacities to Environmental Changes at Regional and Global Scales 5. Reducing Risk from Natural Hazard, Pollution and Climate Change in Megacities and Associated Networks 6. Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change and Development: Interaction and Integration 7. Case Studies
Mark Pelling is Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography at King's College London, UK.
Sophie Blackburn is a Research Associate in the Department of Geography at King's College London, UK.