Urban Disaster Resilience and Security

Urban Disaster Resilience and Security

Addressing Risks in Societies

Fiedrich, Frank; Fekete, Alexander

Springer International Publishing AG

12/2017

518

Dura

Inglês

9783319686059

15 a 20 dias

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PART 1 - Science-Policy Nexus Perspectives.- Management of a city - demands on decision-makers and operational institutions.- Challenges of both quantitative and qualitative methods to address built environment vulnerability and resilience.- Management of a city - demands on decision-makers and operational institutions.- From information to knowledge: the role of knowledge for urban resilience and crisis management.- Information provision and consulting communities about climate change and risks: an integrated critical infrastructure risk and resilience concept in the context of extreme weather and global change.- Opportunities of indicator-based operationalisations of resilience for urban disaster resilience.- PART 2 Case studies of urban disaster resilience and security.- The Distribution of Vulnerability of Urban Spaces: Residential Segregation and the Subjective Dimension of (Un)Safety.- Interrelations of urbanisation and resilience in dynamic and emerging nations: chances and challenges.- Presumptuousness and measure of a city - Kathmandu as a stage of international resilience efforts.- Knowledge as enabler of urban infrastructure resilience.- PART 3 - Critical perspectives on a scientific advancement on the topic of urban resilience.- Reviews to Part 2 and Replies of the authors.- Is the urban resilience metaphor overstretched?.- Who gets marginalised and sidelined by the urban resilience focus?.- The resilient city - 10 years of research.- Harbour city / airport city.- Smart city / Green city / Science city / Edge city (suburbia).- Periurban.- An Urban Earthquake Disaster Risk Index.- PART 4 - Synopsis.
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Urban Resilience;Urban Risk Assessment;Resilience Measurability;Urban Infrastructure;City Management;urban geography and urbanism;sustainability