The Role of Policies and Governance
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Köp båda 2 för 2760 krCecilia Tortajada is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Water Policy in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Water Resources Development. James Horne is the former Deputy Secretary of the Australian Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities and is now a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Larry Harrington is the former Research Director of the CGIAR Challenge Programme on Water and Food (CPWF) and is now an Adjunct Professor at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.
Introduction 1. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: improving water services in cities affected by extreme weather events 2. Using water management infrastructure to address both flood risk and the urban heat island 3. Antifragility and the development of urban water infrastructure 4. The impact of weather extremes on urban resilience to hydro-climate hazards: a Singapore case study 5. Environmental resilience and intergovernmental collaboration in the Pearl River Delta 6. Exposure and resilience of Chinas cities to floods and droughts: a double-edged sword 7. The political economy of flood management reform in China 8. Governance of the Sponge City Programme in China with Wuhan as a case study 9. Towards adaptive governance for urban drought resilience: the case of Da Nang, Vietnam 10. Policy narratives help maintain institutional traps in the governance of floods in Thailand 11. Resilience in major Australian cities: assessing capacity and preparedness to respond to extreme weather events 12. Rainproof cities in the Netherlands: approaches in Dutch water governance to climate-adaptive urban planning 13. Devolving water governance in the Kenyan Arid Lands: from top-down drought and flood emergency response to locally driven water resource development planning