Climate Health Risks in Megacities : Sustainable Management and Strategic Planning

__**Climate Health Risks in Megacities: Sustainable Management and Strategic Planning**__ courageously confronts the immense challenges of alleviating climate change and takes the initiative to layout an agenda that calls for action in the rapidly changing landscape of our global climate. This guide provides a constructive methodology for developing and implementing risk management and operational continuity management systems to climate change effects on urban populations. It addresses key issues such as physical location, proper sanitation, food security and vector-borne diseases against the backdrop of climate change, and then model its effect on the urban dwellers. The author also reveals the benefits of implementing a unique risk management approach to combat global threats and focuses on building urban resilience in the face of disasters. Prepared with a comprehensive and forward-thinking style, this book draws on indispensable case studies in key megacities like New York, Los Angeles, Beijing, Rio de Janeiro, London, Mumbai, and Lagos, and links researchers, scientists, city’s mayors, environmentalists, policy-makers and world leaders from central areas to review, reflect, and expound on future directions. Climate Health Risks In Megacities: Sustainable Management And Strategic Planning Courageously Confronts The Immense Challenges Of Alleviating Climate Change And Takes The Initiative To Layout An Agenda That Calls For Action In The Rapidly Changing Landscape Of Our Global Climate. This Guide Provides A Constructive Methodology For Developing And Implementing Risk Management And Operational Continuity Management Systems To Climate Change Effects On Urban Populations. It Addresses Key Issues Such As Physical Location, Proper Sanitation, Food Security And Vector-borne Diseases Against The Backdrop Of Climate Change, And Then Model Its Effect On The Urban Dwellers. The Author Also Reveals The Benefits Of Implementing A Unique Risk Management Approach To Combat Global Threats And Focuses On Building Urban Resilience In The Face Of Disasters. Prepared With A Comprehensive And Forward-thinking Style, This Book Draws On Indispensable Case Studies In Key Megacities Like New York, Los Angeles, Beijing, Rio De Janeiro, London, Mumbai, And Lagos, And Links Researchers, Scientists, City S Mayors, Environmentalists, Policy-makers And World Leaders From Central Areas To Review, Reflect, And Expound On Future Directions. This book will provide the methodology for developing and implementing a risk management and operational continuity management systems to climate change effects on urban populations. It supports a unique management approach to drive proactive steps to manage risk more effectively. Presents evidence that a well-planned climate change risk-assessment and management plan modelled on the specific needs and conditions of each urban city will provide a viable advantage in order to combat climate change and its health impacts. The book brings together researchers, city's mayors and world leaders from key areas to review the current literature and to reflect on future directions Includes universal frameworks and processes to provide a structured approach to cope with climate change impacts in megacities Features detail-oriented research and analysis of climate change health risks Discusses seven megacities' case studies in developed and developing countries Uses a risk management system approach that deals with climate variability and its impacts before and after the severe weather event hits the city Helps readers understand the actual policies and adopt them more speedily and efficiently as climate change impacts on health become more evident Content: Section I. Managing climate change and health risks in megacities -- section II. Risk management and its relation to climate change -- section III. Global health risks, facts, and challenges of climate change implication -- section IV. Case study : researched megacities -- section V. Prognosis for change.