Enhancing Adaptation to Climate Change by Integrating Climate Risk into Long-Term Development Plans and Disaster Management

• Main Authors: Porio, Emma E, Patankar, Archana, Patwardhan, Anand, Marome, Wijitbusaba Ann
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2010
• Subjects: Environmental Studies; Sociology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/sa-faculty-pubs/61; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1060&context=sa-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Extreme weather events affect vulnerable urban areas adversely, with substantial damage, disruption of normal economic and social activities and services and loss of human life and can also alter the medium or long-term development trajectory of the cities. Thus, disaster management is an important...