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Climate Change, Adaptation And Formal Education: The Role Of Schooling For Increasing Societies' Adaptive Capacities, Christine Wamsler
Climate Change, Adaptation And Formal Education: The Role Of Schooling For Increasing Societies' Adaptive Capacities, Christine Wamsler
Christine Wamsler
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The Role Of Formal And Informal Insurance Mechanisms For Reducing Urban Disaster Risk: A South–North Comparison, Christine Wamsler, Nigel Lawson
The Role Of Formal And Informal Insurance Mechanisms For Reducing Urban Disaster Risk: A South–North Comparison, Christine Wamsler, Nigel Lawson
Christine Wamsler
Climate change and disaster pose a serious and growing risk to sustainable urban development planning, with disasters having quadrupled in the last three decades. The extent of the changing climatic conditions, in combination with growing urbanisation, is making both Southern and Northern institutions and associated social security and governance systems increasingly inadequate in dealing with extreme weather events. This results in an urgent need to discover innovative ways to adapt “outdated” institutional responses and to increase local-level engagement. This paper analyses current risk financing mechanisms at local and institutional levels in both a Southern and a Northern city (San Salvador …
An Innovative Systems Approach For Research On Urban Risk Reduction And Climate Change Adaptation, Christine Wamsler
An Innovative Systems Approach For Research On Urban Risk Reduction And Climate Change Adaptation, Christine Wamsler
Christine Wamsler
This paper presents an innovative research on urban risk reduction and climate change adaptation that combines case studies, grounded theory and systems analysis, which could be used as a template for similar urban and interdisciplinary investigations. This new approach allows theory to be built not only on any specific situation/system, but also on how this situation/system could be improved. Moreover, it allows investigations that cross the traditional boundaries between disciplines and sectors as regards: (a) the methods applied; (b) the research focus; (c) the heterogeneous set of practitioners and experts involved; and (d) the outcomes that are relevant to more …