Cities at risk : planning for and recovering from natural disasters / edited by Pierre Filion, Gary Sands, Mark Skidmore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Filion, Pierre, 1952- editor.

Sands, Gary, editor.

Skidmore, Mark, editor.

Series:

Global urban studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency management.

Natural disasters--Planning.

Natural disasters.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

xvi, 216 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015.

Contents:

Notes on contributors

Introduction : urban resilience efforts in the face of natural disasters / Pierre Filion, Mark Skidmore and Gary Sands

Enhancing hazard resilience among impoverished urban communities in Ghana : the role of women as catalysts for improvement / Robin L. Ersing, Osman Alhassan, Jesse Sey Ayivor and Kiki Caruson

An analysis of governmental performance during urban disasters : fukushima and hurricane Sandy / Saundra K. Schneider and Marty P. Jordan

Urban disaster recovery : considerations for damage reduction and sustainability / Zhila Pooyan

The earthquakes in Lisbon (1755) and Angra do heroísmo (1980) : reconstruction processes and actual risk / Artur Feio, Roberto Bologna, Daniel Monteiro and Daniel Félix

From disaster to opportunity : reviving urban function after the Canterbury earthquakes / Joanne Stevenson, Sonia Giovinazzi, Erica Seville, Charlotte Brown, Yan (Alice) Chang-Richards and Suzanne Wilkinson

Adaptive strategies of urban disaster recovery planning / Mark Kammerbauer

Urban vulnerability and resiliency to natural disasters : an integrative tourism planning perspective / Hyun Kim and David W. Marcouiller

Computing the aggregate cost of a disaster : national and regional issues / Charles Steindel

Conclusion : stages and scales of urban resilience strategies / Gary Sands, Pierre Filion and Mark Skidmore

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472441683

1472441680

OCLC:

915510151