| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Building safer cities/ edited by Alcira Kreimer, Margaret Arnold, Anne Carlin. |
| Reminder of title: |
the future of disaster risk / |
| other author: |
Arnold, Margaret, |
| Published: |
Washington, D.C. :World Bank, : c2003., |
| Description: |
xxi, 299 p. :ill., maps. |
| Series: |
Disaster risk management series ; |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Part I. Diasters, 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. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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 G鋎nter Brauch -- Urban land markets and disasters: floods in Argentina's cities / Nora Clichevsky. |
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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. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Part IV. Protecting critical infrastructure from disaster impacts. A new structural approach for the study of domino effects between life support networks/ Beno緅t 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. |
| Subject: |
Climatic changes Risk assessment - Developing countries. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=100742An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0585479550 (electronic bk.) |