Investing in Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience: Design, Methods and Knowledge in the Face of Climate Change (Paperback)

1. Introduction 2. Assessing the Contribution of Climate Change Adaptation Measures to Build Resilience in Urban Areas: Application to Lisbon 3. The Underlying Mechanism of Resettlement Dissastisfaction 4. Building Flood Vulnerability Assessments in Historic Sites: An application to the historical center of? Guimaraes 5. Exploring System Thinking as a Pathway to Improve the Use of Knowledge in Building Resilience to Climate-related Hazards 6. Research and Local Action in the Urban Margins: Resistance and resilience 7. Incentives, Programs, and Alternative Policy Pathwaysfor Promising Resilience of Heritage Buidlings 8. The Media Attention on Climate Change: A Portuguese case study 9. Designing Redundancy in Urban Landscapes: How, in times of emergencies,temporary uses transform normality 10. ICT and Mobile Applications for Disaster Risk and Incremental Housing: The case of NGOs in Rio de Janeiro 11. Vulnerability and Infrastructure Inadequacies: Building better humanitarian facilities 12. Social place of heritage: Disaster risk mitigation plan in Asia 13. Welcoming Floods to Enhance Resilience: Lessons from a heritage site 14. Development of a Physical Services Index for Flooding Hazards in Built Environments: The case of metro Manila