Governance for Drought Resilience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Governance for Drought Resilience write by Hans Bressers. This book was released on 2016-05-11. Governance for Drought Resilience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents the findings of a team of scientists and practitioners who have been working on the project “Benefits of Governance in Drought Adaptation” (in short: the DROP project), which is included in the European Union’s INTERREG IVB NWE programme. The DROP governance team developed a Governance Assessment Tool (GAT), which allows the governance setting of a given region for planning and realizing drought adaptation measures to be assessed. Based on this assessment, recommendations can be developed for regional water authorities concerning how to operate most effectively towards increased drought resilience in this context. The GAT has been applied to six regions in Northwest Europe: Twente and Salland in the Netherlands, Eifel-Ruhr in Germany, Brittany in France, Somerset in the United Kingdom, and Flanders in Belgium. These regions are subject to drought aspects related to nature, agriculture and freshwater. This book will aid regional water authorities and other relevant stakeholders interested in governance assessment, whether that context is about water, more specifically about drought or flooding events, or other environmental issues. Further, the GAT can and has also been applied more broadly to a range of governance contexts for water management and beyond.
Water Governance Assessment Tool
Water Governance Assessment Tool - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Water Governance Assessment Tool write by Hans Bressers. This book was released on 2013. Water Governance Assessment Tool available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Urban Resilience to Droughts and Floods
Urban Resilience to Droughts and Floods - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Resilience to Droughts and Floods write by Cecilia Tortajada. This book was released on 2020-05-21. Urban Resilience to Droughts and Floods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on policies and governance on how to build the resilience of cities to droughts and floods in the short-, medium-, and long-term. There are discussions on how cities prepare for, cope with, learn from, manage, and recover from these extreme events. The chapters also consider aspects such as changing paradigms, policy responses under uncertainty, scenario development, institutional responses, adaptive forecasting, governance perspectives, infrastructure development, overall investments, and technological innovation. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction are discussed at length. Most of the cities and regions studied are in Asia, however, cities from Oceania, Europe, Africa, and North America are also included. Analyses are not limited to cities but to the basins and regions from which urban populations obtain their resources, and on which their resilience depends. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.
Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events
Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events write by Isabelle La Jeunesse. This book was released on 2019-11-04. Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides an understanding of the relationship between social-ecological systems and multilevel governance so that readers can properly deal with hydrometeorological extreme events and hazards Based on field investigations from EU research projects, this book is the first to devote itself to scientific and policy-related knowledge concerning climate change-induced extreme events. It depicts national and international strategies, as well as tools used to improve multilevel governance for the management of hydrometeorological risks. It also demonstrates how these strategies play out over different scales of the decision-making processes. Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events: A Governance Issue offers comprehensive coverage of such events as floods, droughts, coastal storms, and wind storms. It showcases real-life success stories of multilevel governance and highlights the individuals involved and the resources mobilized in the decision-making processes. The book starts by presenting a synthesis of hydrometeorological extreme events and their impacts on society. It then demonstrates how societies are organizing themselves to face these extreme events, focusing on the strategies of integration of risk management in governance and public policy. In addition, it includes the results of several EU-funded projects such as CLIMB, STARFLOOD, and INTERREG IVB project DROP. The first book dedicated to hydrometeorological extreme events governance based on field investigations from EU research projects Offers a “multi-hazards” approach—mixing policy, governance, and field investigations’ main outputs Features the results of EU-funded projects addressing hydrometeorological extreme events Part of the Hydrometeorological Extreme Events series Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events is an ideal book for upper-graduate students, postgraduates, researchers, scientists, and policy-makers working in the field.
Adaptive Governance of Disaster
Adaptive Governance of Disaster - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Adaptive Governance of Disaster write by Margot A. Hurlbert. This book was released on 2017-08-07. Adaptive Governance of Disaster available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a comparative analysis of policy instruments designed to respond to climate change, drought and floods in connection with agricultural producers and their communities in four case study areas: Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada; Coquimbo, Chile; and Mendoza, Argentina. Assessed from the standpoint of effectiveness and adaptive governance, instruments for improving the livelihood capitals of agricultural producers are identified and recommendations to improve the suite of policy instruments are put forward.
