Climatic Resiliency for Indian cities

Author(s)
Dr. Mukherjee, M.
Publication language
English
Pages
7pp
Date published
04 Nov 2009
Publisher
India Disaster Management Congress
Type
Presentations
Keywords
Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Disasters, Environment & climate, Urban
Countries
India

Resiliency means springing back into normalcy after being stretched.
Reducing resilience increases vulnerability, exposing urban systems to greater risk of the vagaries of uncertainty and surprise.
Climate risk reduction is one strong step forward to control urban risk.