Building safer cities : the future of disaster risk / edited by Alcira Kreimer, Margaret Arnold, Anne Carlin.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Kreimer, Alcira.

Arnold, Margaret, 1965-

Carlin, Anne.

Series:

Disaster risk management series ; no. 3.

Disaster risk management series ; no. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency management--Developing countries.

Emergency management.

Floods.

Developing countries.

Floods--Developing countries.

Climatic changes--Risk assessment--Developing countries.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Risk assessment.

Physical Description:

xxi, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : World Bank, [2003]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0821354973

OCLC:

53233706