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Constructing risk : disaster, development, and the built environment /

"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 vuln...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bender, Stephen O. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn, 2021.
Colección:Catastrophes in context ; v. 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.