Constructing Risk
eBook - PDF

Constructing Risk

Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment

  1. 252 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Constructing Risk

Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment

About this book

Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies approach economic development while trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers. It examines the vulnerability of economic and social infrastructure to natural hazard events, looks at policies which imperil infrastructure, and proposes new development approaches to be undertaken by sovereign states, international development banks, NGOs, and bilateral aid agencies.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Constructing Risk
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Chronology: Stakeholder Statements on Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment
  7. Introduction
  8. Part I — We Got Here for a Reason
  9. Chapter 1 — Linkage between Disaster and Development
  10. Chapter 2 — Deliberate Actions and Debilitating Outcomes—Gaps Appear
  11. Chapter 3 — What Development Has Brought and Disaster Wrought
  12. Chapter 4 — Understanding Where the Disaster-Development Link Leads
  13. Chapter 5 — Disaster-Development Linkage through the Lens of Disaster Recovery
  14. Chapter 6 — Continuity in the Name of Constituents
  15. Part II — Once and Future Disaster Risk Reduction
  16. Chapter 7 — Redefining Disaster Risk Reduction in Development of the Built Environment
  17. Chapter 8 — Making Risk Information Visible
  18. Chapter 9 — Risk within Present and Emerging Economic Development Forces
  19. Part III — Disaster Risk Reduction Will Be What It Is Conceived to Be
  20. Chapter 10 — Sustaining Nature of Disaster-Development Linkage
  21. Chapter 11 — Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Development
  22. Part iV — They Who Call the Tune
  23. Chapter 12 — Built Environment Vulnerability and Development Processes
  24. Chapter 13 — Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, Regulation, and Enforcement
  25. Chapter 14 — Policy Guidance on Disaster Risk Reduction Taken to Development
  26. Chapter 15 — What Has Been Found about the Future: Changes That Change Positions
  27. Conclusion
  28. Glossary
  29. References
  30. Index