Building safer cities : the future of disaster risk /
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| Formáid: | LEABHAR |
| Teanga: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
World Bank,
c2003.
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| Sraith: | Disaster risk management series ;
no. 3 |
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Clár na nÁbhar:
- 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.