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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Climate Change Adaptation

Adapting to Flood Risk
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This book provides important new and actionable tools for diverse cities and communities facing climate disasters to engage in risk assessment and green recovery.  The on the ground perspective from case studies across the global south ensures a culturally inclusive perspective too often missing from the current dialogue.  This book offers integrated, actionable and culturally inclusive risk management and green recovery conceptual frameworks and methodologies based on case studies from communities across the global south. Through its focus on flood disasters, this book provides an integrated approach to climate adaptation, green growth and mitigation that can unlock climate action and increase community resilience across the global south. This book is intended for university students, professionals, local governments, and policy decision makers.

Author Biography:

Professor Kim, Kwi-Gon is an environmental ecological planner actively involving himself to the center of environmental and climate field where environmental problems have become global issues and green growth, a vision of nations. He received his bachelor's degree in Forestry from Seoul National University, master's degree in Landscape Architecture at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and master’s degree in Regional and Urban Planning Studies at the School of Planning, University of Reading, UK and a Ph. D. in Planning Studies at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, UCL, University of London, UK. His current field of interest is planning and creation of Low- Carbon Ecopolis and Climate Smart Cities, ideal cities where human beings and nature coexist. Catherine Atkin is an attorney, entrepreneur and urban planner committed to building equitable and effective climate solutions and leveraging the power of carbon data transparency and climate technology innovations to drive climate impact and sustainable development. She received a BA from Stanford University, a law degree from Berkeley School of Law (UCB) and a master’s degree in Urban Planning from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).  She is a member of the California Bar and a member of the California Lawyers Association Environmental Law Section. She is Co-chair of the Stanford Law School CodeX Center for Legal Informatics Climate Data Policy Initiative and is an expert on national and sub-national GHG data policies and accounting frameworks with a special focus on how next-gen technologies like BC, AI and IoT can be leveraged for greater transparency and impact and is.   She is co-chair of the UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub Consumption Based Accounting City Initiative Working Group where she is focused on the development of new GHG accounting and financing solutions that can catalyze sustainable and climate positive value chains. 
Release date NZ
July 21st, 2024
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Catherine Atkin
  • Edited by Kwi-Gon Kim
Illustrations
100 Illustrations, black and white; XX, 330 p. 100 illus.
Pages
330
ISBN-13
9783031503641
Product ID
38412846

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