Some areas in Singapore are more prone than others to climate change-related risks.
Coastal areas are exposed to rising sea levels, which will further accelerate in the future due …

Urban resilience is increasingly promoted as something for cities to work toward and attain
in the face of threats such as terrorism, economic recessions, and natural disasters. Recent …

A step-wise mixed methods research design was adopted. 1. Demographic data were used
to profile communities for comparison, representativeness of samples, and comparisons of …

This primer is intended as a guide for assisting local governments in East Asia to better
understand the consequences of climate change; to understand the linkage between climate …

Community resilience is the ability of communities to withstand and recover from stressors
as well as to learn from past stressors to strengthen future response and recovery efforts …

Purpose Climate change will create significant hazards globally. These are usually
described in terms of physical phenomenon such as sea level rises, droughts, flooding and …

This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada. The researchers carried this work out under a Knowledge Synthesis Grant that was …

" How do urban communities in Asian cities experience the impacts of urbanisation and
climate change? This book throws light on the ongoing processes of rapid urban …

Stronger Than the Storm: Applying the Urban Community Resilience Assessment to Extreme
Climate Events | World Resources Institute Skip to main content Accessibility Home Making Big …

One of the emerging reasons for the current trend of increasing impacts of disasters is the
unpredictability of natural hazard events coupled with the tendency of human settlements to …