Lessons from Urban Risk Assessments in Latin American and Caribbean Cities

This paper draws on the results from a recent World Bank-funded project designed to inform policy-making and climate change adaptation planning in small and medium-sized cities in Latin America and the Caribbean. The focus was on floods and landslides, which are the two most common climate-related r...

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Main Authors:	Bloch, Robin, Papachristodoulou, Nikolaos, Miller, Rawlings, Monroy, Jose, Fisseha, Tiguist, Trejos, Lorena, Kappes, Melanie S., Pozueta, Beatriz
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2014
Subjects:	climate change capacity development risk management disaster risk management climate risks climate change adaptation urbanization
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20482

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spelling	okr-10986-204822021-04-23T14:03:56Z Lessons from Urban Risk Assessments in Latin American and Caribbean Cities Bloch, Robin Papachristodoulou, Nikolaos Miller, Rawlings Monroy, Jose Fisseha, Tiguist Trejos, Lorena Kappes, Melanie S. Pozueta, Beatriz climate change capacity development risk management disaster risk management climate risks climate change adaptation urbanization This paper draws on the results from a recent World Bank-funded project designed to inform policy-making and climate change adaptation planning in small and medium-sized cities in Latin America and the Caribbean. The focus was on floods and landslides, which are the two most common climate-related risks in cities across the region. The project allowed the application of the Urban Risk Assessment (URA) tool developed by the World Bank and the drawing of valuable lessons which may also be applicable to the many methods and tools available for climate change adaptation planning in the rapidly urbanising cities of developing countries. 2014-10-28T22:19:04Z 2014-10-28T22:19:04Z 2014-08-08 Journal Article Development in Practice 0961-4524 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20482 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Latin America & Caribbean Caribbean Latin America
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spellingShingle	climate change capacity development risk management disaster risk management climate risks climate change adaptation urbanization Bloch, Robin Papachristodoulou, Nikolaos Miller, Rawlings Monroy, Jose Fisseha, Tiguist Trejos, Lorena Kappes, Melanie S. Pozueta, Beatriz Lessons from Urban Risk Assessments in Latin American and Caribbean Cities
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description	This paper draws on the results from a recent World Bank-funded project designed to inform policy-making and climate change adaptation planning in small and medium-sized cities in Latin America and the Caribbean. The focus was on floods and landslides, which are the two most common climate-related risks in cities across the region. The project allowed the application of the Urban Risk Assessment (URA) tool developed by the World Bank and the drawing of valuable lessons which may also be applicable to the many methods and tools available for climate change adaptation planning in the rapidly urbanising cities of developing countries.
format	Journal Article
author	Bloch, Robin Papachristodoulou, Nikolaos Miller, Rawlings Monroy, Jose Fisseha, Tiguist Trejos, Lorena Kappes, Melanie S. Pozueta, Beatriz
author_facet	Bloch, Robin Papachristodoulou, Nikolaos Miller, Rawlings Monroy, Jose Fisseha, Tiguist Trejos, Lorena Kappes, Melanie S. Pozueta, Beatriz
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title	Lessons from Urban Risk Assessments in Latin American and Caribbean Cities
title_short	Lessons from Urban Risk Assessments in Latin American and Caribbean Cities
title_full	Lessons from Urban Risk Assessments in Latin American and Caribbean Cities
title_fullStr	Lessons from Urban Risk Assessments in Latin American and Caribbean Cities
title_full_unstemmed	Lessons from Urban Risk Assessments in Latin American and Caribbean Cities
title_sort	lessons from urban risk assessments in latin american and caribbean cities
publisher	Taylor and Francis
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Lessons from Urban Risk Assessments in Latin American and Caribbean Cities

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