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Addressing climate risk in coastal urban areas of East and Southeast Asia : connecting climate science, engineering and finance /

Addressing Climate Risk in Coastal Urban Areas of East and Southeast Asia provides an in-depth exploration of the multifaceted challenges posed by climate hazards in coastal urban areas of East and Southeast Asia. It addresses interconnections between climate science, physical climate threats, engin...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Chong, Bruce (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025.
Subjects:
Climatic changes > Economic aspects.
Civil engineering > Environmental aspects > East Asia.
Civil engineering > Environmental aspects > Southeast Asia.
Metropolitan areas > East Asia.
Metropolitan areas > Southeast Asia.
Uncertainty.
Climat > Changements > Aspect économique.
Génie civil > Aspect de l'environnement > Asie du Sud-Est.
Incertitude.
Technology & Engineering > Civil > General.
Civil engineering, surveying and building.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I:
  • Climate change trends and challenges
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The climate science, infrastructure and finance landscape
  • Part II: -an integrated approach to assessing climate risk in infrastructure
  • 3. Overall methodology
  • 4. Localised projections for climate change modelling
  • 5. Assessing infrastructure risk and resilience for typhoons and other extreme events
  • 6. Enhancing infrastructure resilience
  • 7. assessing financial risk and identifying opportunities for climate resilient infrastructure
  • 8. Selecting gcms to improve accuracy of projections of tropical cyclone landfalling activity in East Asia
  • 9. Using climate modelling to develop engineering design parameters for building services systems
  • 10. an extended statistical and dynamic approach for assessing tropical cyclone and wind hazards in the western North Pacific (wnp) basin
  • Part III:
  • Case studies: Climate risk assessment and critical infrastructure adaptation
  • 11. Identifying and evaluating critical infrastructure for climate hazard adaptation
  • 12. Designing and upgrading drainage systems for climate hazards
  • 13. integrating climate adaptation into planning, design and management of coastal infrastructure
  • 14. designing buildings and infrastructure for wind hazards
  • 15. Managing landslide risk
  • 16. designing for extreme heat resilience in urban settings
  • 17. damages analysis approach for east asia physical assets
  • 18. Regulatory guidelines on climate risk management and related analytical tools
  • Part IV:
  • Summary
  • 19. Summary and practical next steps.