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Terms and conditions applyWater and the City: Risk, Resilience and Planning for a Sustainable Future
Iain White
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Format: Book
Pages: 201
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: Jul 2010
Stock Code: 72652
ISBN: 9780415553339
Binding: Paperback
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As a vital human need water has been absolutely critical to decisions as to where cities originate, how much they grow and the standard of living of the inhabitants. The relationship is complex however; we both need continual availability and protection from its potential impacts: either too much or too little can have devastating consequences.
Yet over recent decades flooding and scarcity episodes have become commonplace in even the most advanced countries. Moreover, future projections of changing climates, burgeoning populations and escalating urbanisation has created an intense need for intervention measures that are appropriate to this uncertain context. A gradual recognition of the difficulties in managing these risks has turned the focus towards people and places; key tenets of spatial planning. Indeed, flooding and scarcity events cannot be disassociated from the socio-economic context within which they occur; being directly related to how we live, where we live and how we govern.
Iain White's book initially draws together information on a host of connected subjects from population growth to water scarcity to the relationship between humanity and nature before demonstrating how utilising notions of risk and resilience could help improve the relationship between the city and its most precious resource. Part of the successful Natural and Built Environment series, this book combines discussions of risk, water and spatial planning to provide an invaluable text for planning, geography and urban studies students on how to address urban water problems within a rapidly changing world.
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