Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development shows how ICT as an enabler for all spheres of development can help innovate business processes and operations, and provide faster integration of new technologies into business systems. Focused on sustainability, it addresses strategic approaches to cope with climatic, environmental, and other global risks, and aims to promote prosperity and economic growth. Furthermore, this book explores how the adoption of new technologies and collective action based upon a strategic behavioral theory of new leadership, responding to specific set of conditions that allows for the proposed strategies to cope with risks, can be applied and consequently finds solutions to the desired growth pattern that must be sustained, inclusive and equitable. Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development shows how ICT as an enabler for all spheres of development can help innovate business processes and operations, and provide faster integration of new technologies into business systems. Focused on sustainability, it addresses strategic approaches to cope with climatic, environmental, and other global risks, and aims to promote prosperity and economic growth. Furthermore, this book explores how the adoption of new technologies and collective action based upon a strategic behavioral theory of new leadership, responding to specific set of conditions that allows for the proposed strategies to cope with risks, can be applied and consequently finds solutions to the desired growth pattern that must be sustained, inclusive and equitable. Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development shows how ICT as an enabler for all spheres of development can help innovate business processes and operations, and provide faster integration of new technologies into business systems. Focused on sustainability, it addresses strategic approaches to cope with climatic, environmental, and other global risks, and aims to promote prosperity and economic growth. Furthermore, this book explores how the adoption of new technologies and collective action based upon a strategic behavioral theory of new leadership, responding to specific set of conditions that allows for the proposed strategies to cope with risks, can be applied and consequently finds solutions to the desired growth pattern that must be sustained, inclusive and equitable. Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development shows how ICT as an enabler for all spheres of development can help innovate business processes and operations, and provide faster integration of new technologies into business systems. Focused on sustainability, it addresses strategic approaches to cope with climatic, environmental, and other global risks, and aims to promote prosperity and economic growth. Furthermore, this book explores how the adoption of new technologies and collective action based upon a strategic behavioral theory of new leadership, responding to specific set of conditions that allows for the proposed strategies to cope with risks, can be applied and consequently finds solutions to the desired growth pattern that must be sustained, inclusive and equitable. Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development shows how ICT as an enabler for all spheres of development can help innovate business processes and operations, and provide faster integration of new technologies into business systems. Focused on sustainability, it addresses strategic approaches to cope with climatic, environmental, and other global risks, and aims to promote prosperity and economic growth. Furthermore, this book explores how the adoption of new technologies and collective action based upon a strategic behavioral theory of new leadership, responding to specific set of conditions that allows for the proposed strategies to cope with risks, can be applied and consequently finds solutions to the desired growth pattern that must be sustained, inclusive and equitable. Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development shows how ICT as an enabler for all spheres of development can help innovate business processes and operations, and provide faster integration of new technologies into business systems. Focused on sustainability, it addresses strategic approaches to cope with climatic, environmental, and other global risks, and aims to promote prosperity and economic growth. Furthermore, this book explores how the adoption of new technologies and collective action based upon a strategic behavioral theory of new leadership, responding to specific set of conditions that allows for the proposed strategies to cope with risks, can be applied and consequently finds solutions to the desired growth pattern that must be sustained, inclusive and equitable.

Climate Health Risks in Megacities: Sustainable Management and Strategic Planning courageously confronts the immense challenges of alleviating climate change and takes the initiative to layout an agenda that calls for action in the rapidly changing landscape of our global climate. This guide provides a constructive methodology for developing and implementing risk management and operational continuity management systems to climate change effects on urban populations. It addresses key issues such as physical location, proper sanitation, food security and vector-borne diseases against the backdrop of climate change, and then model its effect on the urban dwellers. The author also reveals the benefits of implementing a unique risk management approach to combat global threats and focuses on building urban resilience in the face of disasters. Prepared with a comprehensive and forward-thinking style, this book draws on indispensable case studies in key megacities like New York, Los Angeles, Beijing, Rio de Janeiro, London, Mumbai, and Lagos, and links researchers, scientists, city’s mayors, environmentalists, policy-makers and world leaders from central areas to review, reflect, and expound on future directions.

Each year, the environmental degradation, financial losses, psychological health threats, and death toll linked to wildfires in California are worsening. This article explores an urgent issue regarding the growing prevalence and intensity of wildfires in California, which are largely influenced by climate change and further complicated by ineffective urban wildfire management approaches. A comprehensive analysis necessitates an exploration of key themes and concepts articulated in the text, along with an examination of their implications and possible solutions. The intensity of wildfire seasons is on the rise, with records being shattered annually. This trend is largely ascribed to climate change, which engenders hotter and drier conditions that facilitate wildfires. The consequences of these shifting conditions extend beyond environmental harm; they jeopardize ecosystems, human lives, property, and local economies. The paper presents risk management frameworks for identifying, assessing, and prioritizing risks followed by coordinated efforts to minimize, monitor, and control the probability or impact of unfortunate events. In the context of urban resilience against wildfires, risk mechanisms may include establishing early-warning systems, creating defensible spaces around properties, and employing controlled burns as preventive measures. This involves developing robust recovery plans, optimizing resource allocation, and ensuring effective communication among stakeholders. Integrating these elements fosters a comprehensive approach to not only mitigate the impact of wildfire but also enhance the ability of urban areas to recover swiftly and sustainably from such disasters

Climate change and expanding urbanization present significant challenges for urban planning in attaining sustainable urbanization and development. Rapid and continual urbanization exacerbates flooding by increasing the number of impervious surfaces and altering flow paths. Flooding episodes and the risk they provide in metropolitan areas are a severe problem with global consequences. Urban areas require a resilience-based risk management approach to build capacity, adapt, and minimize flood risks, which have negative consequences for infrastructure, health, and the environment, including roads, buildings, and homes, as well as disrupt transportation routes and commercial supplies. I propose an alternative planning and managerial strategy for urban flood hazard management based on urban risk management frameworks, which combines risk management and continuity management systems to address urban system vulnerabilities through environmental changes. Using best practices throughout project design and implementation can improve operational efficiency; including the community, and link risk assessment processes with disaster recovery efforts.

The effects of climate change health impacts on urban healthcare systems and vulnerable populations are a researched topic with foundations on urban risk management, urban health methodologies, and sustainable urbanization. As climate change is a dynamic and transform-ative global issue the gap between adaptation and mitigation efforts and urban planning relies, among other things, on the limitations of previous studies of risk management structures tailored to the existing strategy to calculate the uncertainties and predict their influence on urban systems and subsystems. Moreover, Although, there is vast documentation on health and urbanization challenges facing climate change impacts, little is known about climate health risks affecting the megacities’ urban poor and the available methodologies to cope with climate health risks in urban environments. Climate and health is a well-researched issue, it is also complex as the methodologies and strategic approach to minimize health risks of climate change are intrinsically contingent on risk methodologies and policy-making processes that are efficient with support of knowledge-based information. This paper emphasizes the need for strategic applications and frameworks on urban health risk management methods that identify potential opportunities, and then manage and take action to prevent adverse health effects. It also emphasizes the probability of events and their consequences, which are measurable both qualitatively and quantitatively

The advance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) implementation in finding solutions to our socio-economic and environmental issues is playing an important role in achieving sustainable development goals. The link between ICTs and policy-makers and all stakeholders of the information society is more important now than ever, as the capacity of new technologies to cope with climate variability and change as well as addressing health risks; environmental degradation becomes crucial to minimize the aforementioned global risks. Hence, the development of pragmatic policies to mitigate the harmful effects of climatic events imposes a responsibility to promote the technology as an effective tool for developing and consequently implementing strategic planning to massive ICT infrastructure investments and availability of broadband for local and national development. To further the efforts of innovation and coordination requires the participation of all sectors of society; from the public and private sector to communities and local leaders in order to fulfill the potential that ICTs offer toward a sustainable society.