ISBN:
9781800731622
Language:
English
Pages:
xxvi, 254 Seiten
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Diagramme
Series Statement:
Catastrophes in context volume 4
Series Statement:
Catastrophes in context
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bender, Stephen O Constructing risk
DDC:
690/.22
Keywords:
Building Safety measures
;
Economic aspects
;
Infrastructure (Economics)
;
Natural disasters Economic aspects
;
Hazard mitigation
;
Economic development Environmental aspects
;
City planning
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Building Safety measures
;
Economic aspects
;
Infrastructure (Economics)
;
Natural disasters Economic aspects
;
Hazard mitigation
;
Economic development Environmental aspects
;
City planning
Abstract:
Foreword / Allan Lavell -- Linkage between disaster and development -- Deliberate actions and debilitating outcomes--gaps appear -- What development has brought and disaster wrought -- Understanding where the disaster-development link leads -- Disaster-development linkage through the lens of disaster recovery -- Continuity in the name of constituents -- Redefining disaster risk reduction in development of the built environment -- Making risk information visible -- Risk within present and emerging economic development forces -- Sustaining nature of disaster-development linkage -- Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in development -- Built environment vulnerability and development processes -- Monitoring, evaluation, reporting, regulation, and enforcement -- Policy guidance on disaster risk reduction taken to development -- What has been found about the future : changes that change positions.
Abstract:
"Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies approach economic development while trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers. It examines the vulnerability of economic and social infrastructure to natural hazard events, looks at policies which imperil infrastructure, and proposes new development approaches to be undertaken by sovereign states, international development banks, NGOs, and bilateral aid agencies"--
Note:
Enthält bibliographische Angaben und Index
