Urban Disaster Resilience and Security Addressing Risks in Societies /

This edited book investigates the interrelations of disaster impacts, resilience and security in an urban context. Urban as a term captures megacities, cities, and generally, human settlements, that are characterised by concentration of quantifiable and non-quantifiable subjects, objects and value a...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:The Urban Book Series,
Subjects:
Urban geography.
Natural disasters.
Environmental management.
Industrial management-Environmental aspects.
Transportation engineering.
Traffic engineering.
ISBN:9783319686066
ISSN:2365-757X
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Table of Contents:
  • PART 1 - Science-Policy Nexus Perspectives
  • Management of a city - demands on decision-makers and operational institutions
  • Challenges of both quantitative and qualitative methods to address built environment vulnerability and resilience
  • Management of a city - demands on decision-makers and operational institutions
  • From information to knowledge: the role of knowledge for urban resilience and crisis management
  • Information provision and consulting communities about climate change and risks: an integrated critical infrastructure risk and resilience concept in the context of extreme weather and global change
  • Opportunities of indicator-based operationalisations of resilience for urban disaster resilience
  • PART 2 Case studies of urban disaster resilience and security
  • The Distribution of Vulnerability of Urban Spaces: Residential Segregation and the Subjective Dimension of (Un)Safety
  • Interrelations of urbanisation and resilience in dynamic and emerging nations: chances and challenges
  • Presumptuousness and measure of a city - Kathmandu as a stage of international resilience efforts.- Knowledge as enabler of urban infrastructure resilience
  • PART 3 - Critical perspectives on a scientific advancement on the topic of urban resilience
  • Reviews to Part 2 and Replies of the authors
  • Is the urban resilience metaphor overstretched?
  • Who gets marginalised and sidelined by the urban resilience focus?
  • The resilient city - 10 years of research
  • Harbour city / airport city
  • Smart city / Green city / Science city / Edge city (suburbia)
  • Periurban
  • An Urban Earthquake Disaster Risk Index.- PART 4 - Synopsis.

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