Planning to Cope with Tropical and Subtropical Climate Change.

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Place / Publishing House:Warschau/Berlin : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2016.
©2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (394 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Planning the Adaptation to Climate Change in Cities: an Introduction
  • 2 Climate Change Characterisation and Planning in Large Tropical and Subtropical Cities
  • 3 Extreme Events Assessment Methodology as a Tool for Engineering Adaptation Measures - Case Study of North Coast of São Paulo State (SP), Brazil
  • 4 Vulnerability and Resilience to Drought in the Chaco, Paraguay
  • 5 Characterization of Flood Hazard at a Municipal Level. A Case Study in Tillabéri Region, Niger
  • 6 Sensitivity of Dar Es Salaam Coastal Aquifer to Climate Change with Regard to Seawater Intrusion and Groundwater Availability
  • 7 Impact of the Construction of an Offshore Highway on the Sea-Spray Dynamics in La Reunion Island
  • 8 Early Warning Systems &amp
  • Geomatics: Value-added Information in the Absence of High Resolution Data
  • 9 Planning the Adaptation of Coastal Cities to Climate Change: a Review of 14 Pilot Projects
  • 10 National and Local Contingency Planning: a Comparative Analysis of Plans in Africa and Latin America
  • 11 Measures of Adaptation and Community-based Water Management in Mékhé, Senegal
  • 12 Flood Risk Preliminary Mapping in Niamey, Niger
  • 13 Flood Risk Assessment at Municipal Level in the Tillabéri Region, Niger
  • 14 Drought Risk in the Tillabery Region, Niger
  • 15 Climate Change Adaptation Through Urban Planning: a Proposed Approach for Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
  • 16 Climate Change Adaptation in Dar es Salaam: Local Government Opinions and Proposed Interventions
  • 17 Household Level Vulnerability to Climate Change in Nepal - A Comparison of a Semi-urban and a Rural Village Development Committee
  • 18 Weather Observation Network and Climate Change Monitoring in Catalonia, Spain
  • 19 Assessing flood risk in Zurich, Switzerland: the KR-RRA approach.
  • 20 Flood Risk Assessment and Quantification in the Piedmont Region, Italy
  • 21 Conclusion.