03439nam a2200361 a 4500 13430692 090622s2003 dcuab b i000 0 eng d 1823 1823 2003384040 0821354973 FQG FQG OCLCQ DLC 363.34/ 22 Building safer cities : the future of disaster risk / edited by Alcira Kreimer, Margaret Arnold, Anne Carlin. Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2003. xxi, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. Disaster risk management series ; no. 3 Includes bibliographical references. 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. 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 Günter Brauch -- Urban land markets and disasters: floods in Argentina's cities / Nora Clichevsky. 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. 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. -- 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. 00012984 Emergency management Developing countries Planning. 26133 City planning Developing countries. 26134 Disasters Developing countries. 26135 Floods Developing countries. 26136 Climatic changes Risk assessment Developing countries. 26137 Kreimer, Alcira. 26138 Arnold, Margaret, 1965- 26139 Carlin, Anne. 26140 Ayesha Abed Library General Shelf. ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 363_340000000000000_BUI 0 1671 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2009-06-29 0.00 1 4 363.34 BUI 3010012984 2015-08-10 2015-07-14 1 2009-06-29 BK No price found in the accession register.