Constructing Risk

Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-162-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

Reihe: Catastrophes in Context

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bender, Stephen O.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Folgen von Katastrophen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Naturgewalten & Katastrophen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviatons

Timelines

Introduction

Part I: We Got Here For a Reason

Chapter 1. Linkage between Disaster and Development

Chapter 2. Deliberate Actions and Debilitating Outcomes—Gaps Appear

Chapter 3. What Development Has Brought and Disaster Wrought

Chapter 4. Understanding Where the Disaster-Development Link Leads

Chapter 5. Disaster-Development Linkage through the Lens of Disaster Recovery

Chapter 6. Continuity in the Name of Constituents

Part II: Once and Future Disaster Risk Reduction

Chapter 7. Redefining DRR in Development of the Built Environment

Chapter 8. Making Risk Information Visible

Chapter 9. Risk within Present and Emerging Economic Development Forces

Part III: DRR Will Be What It Is Conceived to Be

Chapter 10. Sustaining Nature of Disaster-Development Linkage

Chapter 11. Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Development

Part IV: They Who Call the Tune

Chapter 12. Built Environment Vulnerability and Development Processes

Chapter 13. Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, Regulation and Enforcement

Chapter 14. Policy Guidance on DRR Taken to Development

Chapter 15. What Has Been Found about the Future: Changes that Change Positions

Conclusion

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bender, Stephen O.
Stephen O. Bender is an architect and retired staff member of the Department of Sustainable Development of the Organization of American States in Washington D.C. He has acted as a consultant to various international development entities working in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia.