United Nations Global Assessment Report 2015 on Disaster Risk Reduction
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Published on 21. June 2016
156 pages
978-1-78635-556-0 (ISBN)
Description
The collection of papers in this ebook clearly identify how cities have become hubs not only of opportunity, development and economic growth, but also of risk accumulation. In hazard-prone regions, risk has become a defining characteristic of the urban landscape. The first set of papers in this ebook tackles the complex processes of risk accumulation, of cascading and interdependent risks in a world of connected cities. The second set of papers presented, take us into the critical area of how to better understand risk and resilience and discuss limitations to and different approaches and tools available for this.
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- Cover
- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
- Guest editorial
- The urban domino effect: a conceptualization of cities' interconnectedness of risk
- Multi-risk approach and urban resilience
- Critical infrastructure interdependence in New York City during Hurricane Sandy
- Implications of cascading effects for the Hyogo Framework
- Land use planning for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
- Improving construction sector resilience
- Understanding risk: what makes a risk assessment successful?
- Measuring disaster resilience in communities and households
- Linking disaster risk reduction, climate change and development
