Building safer cities
Subtitle: the future of disaster risk
By: edited by Alcira Kreimer, Margaret Arnold, Anne Carlin.
Contributors: Kreimer, Alcira.; Arnold, Margaret, 1965-; Carlin, Anne.
Series: Disaster risk management series ;; no. 3
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Emergency management -- Developing countries -- Planning.; City planning -- Developing countries.; Disasters -- Developing countries.; Floods -- Developing countries.; Climatic changes -- Risk assessment -- Developing countries.
Description: In developing countries, disasters can cause major setbacks to economic and social development, inflict massive casualties, and cause the diversion of funds from development to emergency relief and recovery.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Diasters, vulnerability, and the global economy / Charlotte Benson and Edward Clay; title: Natural hazard risk and privatization / Paul K. Freeman; title: Natural disaster risk and cost-benefit analysis / Reinhard Mechler; title: Globalization and natural disasters: an integrative risk management approach / Torben Juul Andersen; title: Urban disasters and globalization / J.M. Albala-Bertrand; title: Interdependent disaster risks: the need for public-private partnerships / Howard Kunreuther.; title: Part II. Cities and climate change / Anthony G. Bigio; title: The resilience of coastal megacities to weather-related hazards / Richard J.T. Klein, Robert J. Nicholls, and Frank Thomalla; title: Flood management and vulnerability of Dhaka City / Saleemul Huq and Mozaharul Alam; title: Flooding in the Pampean Region of Argentina: the Salado Basin / Hilda Herzer; title: Urbanization and natural disasters in the Mediterranean: population growth and climate change in the 21st century / Hans Günter Brauch; title: Urban land markets and disasters: floods in Argentina's cities / Nora Clichevsky.; title: Part III. Social vulnerability to disaster impacts. Disaster risk reduction in megacities: making the most of human and social capital / Ben Wisner; title: Living with risk: toward effective disaster management training in Africa / Prvoslav Marjanovic and Krisno Nimpuno; title: Urban vulnerability to disasters in developing countries: managing risks / E.L. Quarantelli; title: Natural disasters and urban cultural heritage: a reassessment / June Taboroff.; title: 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.; title: Mitigating the vulnerability of critical infrastructure in developing countries / Lamine Mili; title: Damage to and vulnerability of industrial facilities in the 1999 Kocaeli, Turkey, earthquake / Mustafa Erdik and Eser Durukal; title: The behavior of retrofitted buildings during earthquakes: new technologies / Mikayel Melkumyan.