Water and the City: risk, resilience and planning for a sustainable future

by White; Iain

• ISBN13: 9780415553339
• ISBN10: 0415553334
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-08-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Filling a gap in the literature of water and the city, White tackles droughts, flooding and the supply of water in this welcome addition to the series. Comprehensive and thought-provoking, it is an ideal text for all geography and planning students.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
The past, present and future context	p. 1
Nature, climate and hazard	p. 3
Adapting to urban risk	p. 4
The development of urban form	p. 6
Progress and nature	p. 9
A vision of a city	p. 11
Mastering the weather	p. 13
Unpacking 'natural' disasters	p. 15
How natural are 'natural' disasters?	p. 16
Conclusion	p. 18
Drivers for change	p. 20
From Homo sapiens to Homo urbanus?	p. 20
Population growth and land use	p. 22
Awareness of the impact of humanity	p. 24
An improved means to an unimproved end	p. 27
A changing climate	p. 30
Climatic impacts	p. 31
Responding to drivers	p. 34
Conclusion	p. 36
The problems of water in the city	p. 39
Too much water in the city	p. 41
Flooding and land use controls	p. 42
The evolution of flooding and land use	p. 44
The scope of flooding	p. 47
Flooding from watercourses	p. 49
Flooding from coasts and estuaries	p. 51
Flooding from surface water and drains	p. 54
Flooding from groundwater	p. 58
Unpacking spatial vulnerability	p. 59
Wider flooding impacts	p. 61
Conclusion	p. 62
Too little water in the city	p. 64
The exploitation of water	p. 65
The scope of water scarcity	p. 66
The water supply infrastructure	p. 69
Water and growth	p. 71
Domestic water use	p. 73
Virtual water use	p. 76
Reflecting upon water scarcity and the city	p. 80
Conclusion	p. 82
Towards a conceptual framework	p. 85
Risk, resilience and spatial planning	p. 87
Towards a framing concept	p. 88
Lost in translation?	p. 89
The evolution of risk	p. 90
From act of god to act of humanity to act of planners?	p. 92
Deconstructing risk	p. 94
Deconstructing resilience	p. 96
Risk, resilience and water in the city	p. 97
The perception of risk	p. 100
Conclusion	p. 101
Principles of intervention	p. 104
A basis for intervention	p. 105
Linking risk, resilience and uncertainty with adaptation and mitigation	p. 106
A conceptual framework of risk	p. 108
Engaging with uncertainty	p. 111
The production of knowledge	p. 113
The application of knowledge	p. 117
Beyond spatial planning	p. 118
Conclusion	p. 119
Planning for a sustainable future	p. 123
Hazard and resilience in the city	p. 125
Managing hazard	p. 126
Soft infrastructure	p. 129
The application of SUDS	p. 132
Green infrastructure	p. 133
The application of green infrastructure	p. 136
Reflecting upon infrastructure and resilience	p. 138
Future housing growth and hazard	p. 140
Conclusion	p. 142
Exposure and resilience in the city	p. 144
Unpacking exposure	p. 145
Exposure and spatial planning	p. 146
Exposure to flooding	p. 147
Addressing exposure to flooding	p. 149
Exposure to water scarcity	p. 152
Addressing exposure to water scarcity	p. 152
Conclusion	p. 155
Vulnerability and resilience in the city	p. 157
Managing vulnerability	p. 58
Resilience and outcome vidnerability	p. 161
Resistance, resilience and repairability	p. 163
Resilience and contextual vulnerability	p. 165
Addressing contextual vulnerability	p. 168
Conclusion	p. 170
Towards a more sustainable city	p. 172
Impacts and intervention	p. 174
Where to begin	p. 175
A period of managerial shifts	p. 176
Envisioning a water resilient city	p. 177
The past, present and future context	p. 179
The problems of water in the city	p. 181
Towards a conceptual framework	p. 182
Planning for a sustainable future	p. 185
Bibliography	p. 187
Index	p. 197
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