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Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Abbreviations -- 1: Blue-Green Infrastructure for Addressing Urban Resilience and Sustainability in the Warming World -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure-Examples -- 1.1.2 Global Recognition and Acceptance of UBGI -- 1.1.3 Opportunities and Challenges -- 1.1.4 Progress and Developments in UBGI on the Science Front -- 1.1.4.1 Urban Green Spaces for Increasing Resilience -- 1.1.4.2 UBGI to Manage Urban Heat Islands -- 1.1.4.3 UBGI to Manage Urban Flood Risks -- 1.1.5 Structure of the Book -- References -- Part I: Opportunities and Advances -- 2: Regional Trends in Social-Ecological-Technological (SET) Approaches to Sustainable Urban Planning: Focus on Asia -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Blue-Green Infrastructure and Nature-Based Solutions: Focus on the Asia-Pacific Region -- 2.2.1 Singapore -- 2.2.2 India -- 2.2.3 Sri Lanka -- 2.2.4 China -- 2.2.5 Nepal -- 2.2.6 Fiji -- 2.2.7 Thailand -- 2.2.8 Philippines -- 2.3 Sustainable Urban Natural Resources Management (SUNRM) -- 2.4 Discussion Points -- 2.5 Concluding Notes -- Annexure 1 -- Annexure 2 -- Annexure 3 -- References -- 3: A Risk Assessment Approach to Urban Resilience -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Nature-Based Solutions -- 3.3 Societal Challenges in the Urban Environment -- 3.3.1 Extreme Weather Events -- 3.4 Options Appraisal -- 3.4.1 City Scale -- 3.4.2 The Neighbourhood Approach -- 3.5 Ensuring Sustainability -- 3.6 Taking a Strategic Approach to Promote Blue-Green Infrastructure -- References -- 4: Promoting Blue-Green Infrastructure in Urban Spaces Through Citizen Science Initiatives -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Cities, Climate Change and Sustainable Development -- 4.3 Citizen Science and Blue-Green Infrastructure -- 4.3.1 Citizen Science and Green Infrastructure.

1. Climate change and urban areas -- 2. Interrelation between development, urbanization and carbon footprint -- 3. Role of cities in contributing to national urban GHGs : methods, tools and evidence from India -- 4. Urban spatial parameters -- 5. Spatial metrics and modelling -- 6. Research and policy implications.

Intro -- Foreword: Resilience in Flood Risk Management for Communities and Citizens -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Urban Resilience -- 1.3 Private-Owned Land -- 1.4 Structure of the Book -- References -- 2 Resilient Cities and Homeowners Action: Governing for Flood Resilience Through Homeowner Contributions -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Homeowner Contributions to Flood Resilience -- 2.3 Rationales for Homeowner Involvement -- 2.3.1 Technical: Climate Change and Urbanisation -- 2.3.2 Economic: Minimisation of Damage Costs -- 2.3.3 Legal: Privately Owned Properties -- 2.3.4 Social: Division of Responsibility -- 2.4 Effective, Efficient and Legitimate Flood Risk Governance -- 2.4.1 Effectiveness -- 2.4.2 Efficiency -- 2.4.3 Legitimacy -- 2.5 Homeowners and Governing for Flood Resilience: A Complex Relation -- 2.5.1 Technical Conditions and Triggers: Knowledge and Expertise -- 2.5.2 Economic Conditions and Triggers: Financial Incentives -- 2.5.3 Legal Conditions and Triggers: Voluntary or Compulsory Measures? -- 2.5.4 Social Conditions and Triggers: Communicative Instruments -- 2.6 Conclusion and Discussion -- References -- 3 Property, Property Rights, Natural Hazards and Beyond -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Defining Property and Property Rights -- 3.2.1 Property -- 3.2.2 Property Rights in Civil Law Systems -- 3.2.3 Property Rights in Common Law Systems -- 3.2.4 Equity in Common Law Systems -- 3.3 Infringements of Property Rights -- 3.3.1 Disaster Management-Preventive Strategies -- 3.3.2 Conditions for Infringements -- 3.3.3 Coping with Disasters-Recovery Strategies -- 3.4 Discussion -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Individual Behaviour in Disaster Risk Reduction -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Theoretical Concepts -- 4.2.1 Adaptation Intention.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1 An Extended Prologue -- The metanarrative of second order design fiction -- Design as more than 'design' -- The work -- Design fiction positioned -- [FICTION STARTS …] -- Part 2 The Story of Moving Harshon: A City in Crisis -- Setting the scene of the fiction -- The story of the move (transcribed from a public event) -- Moving perspectives: eight voices -- A postscript to the event - the day of attack -- [… FICTION ENDS] -- Part 3 The Observation of Observation: A Review -- Putting the review in place -- The aim of the review -- The setting, or 'how did "we" get here'? -- Revisiting commanding ideas -- Part 4 Closing and Opening: Toward the Brief -- The curtain falls and another story begins -- A schematic note toward a brief -- Overdetermining the instrumental -- Placement and design as politics -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index.

We examine environmental factors as potential determinants of international migration. We distinguish between unexpected short-run factors, captured by natural disasters, as well as long-run climate change and climate variability. Building on a simple neo-classical model we use a panel dataset of bilateral migration flows for the period 1960-2000, the time and dyadic dimensions of which additionally allow us to control for numerous time-varying and time invariant factors. As a whole, we find little direct impact of climatic change on international migration in the medium to long run across our entire sample. Using the rate of urbanization as a proxy for internal migration we find strong evidence that natural disasters beget greater flows of migrants to urban environs.

INTRODUCTION: Environmental factors such as wind, temperature, humidity, and sun exposure are known to affect influenza and viruses such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) transmissions. COVID-19 is a new pandemic with very little information available about its transmission and association with environmental factors. The goal of this paper is to explore the association of environmental factors on daily incidence rate, mortality rate, and recoveries of COVID-19. METHODS: The environmental data for humidity, temperature, wind, and sun exposure were recorded from metrological websites and COVID-19 data such as the daily incidence rate, death rate, and daily recovery were extracted from the government's official website available to the general public. The analysis for each outcome was adjusted for factors such as lock down status, nationwide events, and the number of daily tests performed. Analysis was completed with negative binominal regression log link using generalised linear modelling. RESULTS: Daily temperature, sun exposure, wind, and humidity were not significantly associated with daily incidence rate. Temperature and nationwide social gatherings, although non-significant, showed trends towards a higher chance of incidence. An increase in the number of daily testing was significantly associated with higher COVID-19 incidences (effect size ranged from 2.17–9.96). No factors were significantly associated with daily death rates. Except for the province of Balochistan, a lower daily temperature was associated with a significantly higher daily recovery rate. DISCUSSION: Environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, wind, and daily sun exposure were not consistently associated with COVID-19 incidence, death rates, or recovery. More policing about precautionary measures and ensuring diagnostic testing and accuracy are needed.