Building safer cities : the future of disaster risk /

In developing countries, disasters can cause major setbacks to economic and social development, inflict massive casualties, and cause the diversion of funds from development to emergency relief and recovery.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kreimer, Alcira, Arnold, Margaret, 1965-, Carlin, Anne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, ©2003.
Colección:Disaster risk management series ; no. 3.
Temas:
Emergency management > Developing countries > Planning.
Emergency management > Developing countries.
Floods > Developing countries.
Climatic changes > Risk assessment > Developing countries.
Gestion des situations d'urgence > Pays en voie de développement > Planification.
Gestion des situations d'urgence > Pays en voie de développement.
Inondations > Pays en voie de développement.
Climat > Changements > Évaluation du risque > Pays en voie de développement.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disasters & Disaster Relief.
Climatic changes > Risk assessment
Emergency management
Floods
Klimaänderung
Management
Stadtplanung
Developing countries
Entwicklungsländer
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Disasters, vulnerability, and the global economy / Charlotte Benson and Edward Clay
  • Natural hazard risk and privatization / Paul K. Freeman
  • Natural disaster risk and cost-benefit analysis / Reinhard Mechler
  • Globalization and natural disasters: an integrative risk management approach / Torben Juul Andersen
  • Urban disasters and globalization / J.M. Albala-Bertrand
  • Interdependent disaster risks: the need for public-private partnerships / Howard Kunreuther.
  • Part II. Cities and climate change / Anthony G. Bigio
  • The resilience of coastal megacities to weather-related hazards / Richard J.T. Klein, Robert J. Nicholls, and Frank Thomalla
  • Flood management and vulnerability of Dhaka City / Saleemul Huq and Mozaharul Alam
  • Flooding in the Pampean Region of Argentina: the Salado Basin / Hilda Herzer
  • Urbanization and natural disasters in the Mediterranean: population growth and climate change in the 21st century / Hans Günter Brauch
  • Urban land markets and disasters: floods in Argentina's cities / Nora Clichevsky.
  • Part III. Social vulnerability to disaster impacts. Disaster risk reduction in megacities: making the most of human and social capital / Ben Wisner
  • Living with risk: toward effective disaster management training in Africa / Prvoslav Marjanovic and Krisno Nimpuno
  • Urban vulnerability to disasters in developing countries: managing risks / E.L. Quarantelli
  • Natural disasters and urban cultural heritage: a reassessment / June Taboroff.
  • Part IV. Protecting critical infrastructure from disaster impacts. A new structural approach for the study of domino effects between life support networks / Benoît Robert et al.
  • Mitigating the vulnerability of critical infrastructure in developing countries / Lamine Mili
  • Damage to and vulnerability of industrial facilities in the 1999 Kocaeli, Turkey, earthquake / Mustafa Erdik and Eser Durukal
  • The behavior of retrofitted buildings during earthquakes: new technologies / Mikayel Melkumyan.

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