Front Cover -- Climate and Disaster Resilience in Cities -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- List of Editors -- Brief introduction to the series -- Brief introduction to the volume -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Overview of urban development and associated risks -- Background -- Understanding underlying risk within the urban growth process -- Urbanization and risk in the asia pacific region -- Resilience building: risk reduction and more -- About the book -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 2 Understanding urban resilience -- Introduction -- Reflections from recent studies on urban resilience -- Understanding linkages of risk, adaptation and resilience -- Synthesizing urban risk through the lens of urban resilience -- Resilience within sectors of emerging urbanization -- Resiliency planning -- Conclusion: resilience is a low-hanging fruit -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 3 Mapping climate and disaster resilience in cities -- Introduction -- Measuring resilient urban areas -- Concept and methodology of climate disaster resilience index (CDRI) -- Interpretation of CDRI Scores -- CDRI at regional level -- CDRI at city level and microlevel -- Challenges and potentials of the CDRI -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 4 Climate and disaster resilience mapping at national level -- Introduction -- Need for climate disaster resilience mapping in Indian cities -- Measuring the CDRI for Indian cities -- Discussion and implications of findings -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 5 Climate and disaster resilience mapping in city clusters -- Introduction -- Categories of city clusters -- Metro Manila city cluster -- CDRI study results -- City analysis and policy implications to the HFA priorities for action -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References.

Chapter 6 Climate and disaster resilience mapping at microlevel of cities -- Introduction -- CDRM at the microlevel of cities: approaches -- City characteristics -- Challenges and potentials of CDRM study at the microlevel -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 7 Linking resilience planning to Hyogo framework for action in cities -- Introduction -- Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building resilience of nations and communities to disasters -- Localizing HFA implementation -- Resilience mapping through CDRI and localizing HFA -- Conclusion: Challenges and way forward toward 2015 -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 8 From resilience mapping to action planning -- Introduction: The importance of action planning -- Usage of action planning by different local governments -- Action planning process -- Challenges in action planning -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 9 From action planning to community-based adaptation -- Introduction -- Action planning process and challenges -- Community action planning -- Community-based adaptation -- Tools for community-based adaptation -- Challenges and issues of community-based adaptation -- Action planning to community-based adaptation -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 10 Capacity development and training: Blended learning program -- Capacity development and training -- CDRI capacity-building program -- Lessons from CDRI Capacity-building Program and its implications -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 11 Building Local Government Resilience through City-to-City Cooperation -- Introduction -- The role of local government networks -- Key ingredients to the success of C2C cooperation -- Issues and challenges -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 12 Urban flood risk communication for cities -- Introduction -- Causes of urban flood.

Need of urban flood risk information -- Characterizing urban floods -- Typology of urban floods -- Impacts of urban floods -- Case examples of urban floods -- Underline risk communication from case examples -- Why risk communication is important for cities? -- Discussion and way forward -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 13 Roles of civil society in climate and disaster resilience of cities and local governments -- Introduction -- Support mechanism to local stakeholders -- Capacity development among CSOs -- Collaboration at local level -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 14 Beyond resilience mapping -- Context -- Characteristics of CDRI -- Utilization of CDRI results -- Future vision of CDRI -- Acknowledgments -- References.