TY  - BOOK
AU  - White, Iain
TI  - Water and the city : risk, resilience and planning for a sustainable future
SN  - 0415553334
U1  - 711.8 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London & New York
PB  - Routledge
N1  - CONTENTS Illustrations  xi Preface  xiii Acknowledgements  xv PARTI The past, present and future context  1 1  Nature, climate and hazard  3 Adapting to urban risk  4 The development of urban form  6 Progress and nature  9 A vision of a city  11 Mastering the weather  13 Unpacking'natural'disasters  15 How natural are 'natural' disasters?  16 Conclusion  18 2 Drivers for change  20 From Homo sapiens to Homo urbanus?  20 Population growth and land use  22 Awareness of the impact of humanity  24 An improved means to an unimproved end  27 A changing climate  30 Climatic impacts  31 Responding to drivers  34 Conclusion  36 PART II The problems of water in the city  39 3 Too much water in the city  41 Flooding and land use controls  42 The evolution offloading and land use  44 The scope offloading  47 Flooding from watercourses  49 Flooding from coasts and estuaries  51 Flooding from surface water and drains  54 Flooding from groundwater  58 Unpacking spatial vulnerability  59 Wider flooding impacts  61 Conclusion  62 4 Too little water in the city 64 The exploitation of water  65 The scope of water scarcity  66 The water supply infrastructure  69 Water and growth71 Domestic water use  73 Virtual water use76 Reflecting upon water scarcity and the city  80 Conclusion  82 PART III Towards a conceptual framework 85 5 Risk, resilience and spatial planning 87 Towards a framing concept  88 Lost in translation?  89 The evolution of risk  90 From act of god to act of humanity to act of planners?  92 Deconstructing risk  94 Deconstructing resilience  96 Risk, resilience and water in the city  97 The perception of risk  100 Conclusion101 6 Principles of intervention .  104 A basis for intervention  105 Linking risk, resilience and uncertainty with adaptation and mitigation  106 A conceptual framework of risk  108 Engaging with uncertainty  111 The production of knowledge  113 The application of knowledge  117 Beyond spatial planning  118 Conclusion119 PART IV Planning for a sustainable future 123 7 Hazard and resilience in the city 125 Managing hazard  126 Soft infrastructure129 The application of SUDS  132 Green infrastructure  133 The application of green infrastructure 136 Reflecting upon infrastructure and resilience 138 Future housing growth and hazard 140 Conclusion142 8 Exposure and resilience in the city 144 Unpacking exposure  145 Exposure and spatial planning  146 Exposure to flooding  147 Addressing exposure to flooding 149 j Exposure to water scarcity 152 Addressing exposure to water scarcity 152 Conclusion155 I 9 Vulnerability and resilience in the city 157 Managing vulnerability  158 Resilience and outcome vulnerability  161 I Resistance, resilience and repair ability  163 Resilience and contextual vulnerability 165 Addressing contextual vulnerability 168 Conclusion170 ; 10 Towards a more sustainable city 172 Impacts and intervention174 Where to begin175 period of managerial shifts176 Envisioning a water resilient city  177 Tie past, f resent and future context  179 The problems of water in the city  181 Towards a conceptual framework  182 Planning for a sustainable future  185 Bibliography 187 197
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