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Emergency management, Climatic changes, Risk assessment, City planning, Planning, Floods, Disasters, Disaster relief, Gestion des situations d'urgence, Planification, Inondations, Climat, Changements, Évaluation du risque, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Disasters & Disaster Relief, Klimaänderung, Management, StadtplanungPlaces
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Building safer cities: the future of disaster risk
2003, World Bank
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0821354973 9780821354971
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Table of Contents
Part I. Diasters, 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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