Using simulations of future extreme weather events to escape the resilience trap: Experimental evidence from Hong Kong

• Main Authors: GEVELT, Terry Van, YANG, J., CHAN, K. N., LI, L., WILLIAMSON, Fiona, MCADOO, B. G., SWITZER, A. D.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: Extreme weather events; coastal cities; resilience trap; tropical cyclones; climate change; Hong Kong; Asian Studies; Physical and Environmental Geography
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/231
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Hong Kong is a hyper-dense coastal city that has long learned to live with a potentially disastrous extreme weather event: tropical cyclones. This was largely a reactionary process, with investments in soft and hard infrastructure made in the aftermath of devastating tropical cyclones. While the exp...