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Resilience of outdoor spaces in an era of climate change: the problem of developing countries
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
This paper suggests a framework for integrating climate change into the design of public spaces in developing countries. The aim is to explain the urgent need for public-space design codes in developing countries that factor in global warming and climate extremes. The paper argues that environmental considerations must form an integral part of such design to ensure human wellbeing.
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World Disasters Report 2010: Focus on Urban Risk
International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2010
This report provides suggestions on how high disaster risk within developing countries cities can be reduced. It also highlights how, in a globalised world, a deficiency on one side of the world can create problems for all.
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Urbanisation, global environmental change, and sustainable development in Latin America
Inter American Institute for Global Change Research, Brazil, 2008
Despite the central role of urban areas in socio-economic and geo-political change processes at the local, regional, and global level, as well as in the regional and global biophysical processes, little attention has been paid so far to the complex and dynamic interactions between urban areas and the biophysical and chemical processes of global environmental changes.