Urban Health Risk and Resilience in Asian Cities

This book focuses on understanding urban vulnerability and risk mitigation, advancing good health and wellbeing, and analysing resilience measures for various Asian cities. Today, cities are the dominant human habitat, where a large number of environmental, social, cultural and economic factors have impacts on human health and wellbeing. Cities consist of complex, dynamic, socio—ecological, and technological systems that serve multiple functions in human health and wellbeing. Currently half...