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Urban disaster resilience and security : addressing risks in societies / Alexander Fekete, Frank Fiedrich, editors.

Fekete, Alexander, editor.; Fiedrich, Frank, editor.
2018
HT166
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Title
Urban disaster resilience and security : addressing risks in societies / Alexander Fekete, Frank Fiedrich, editors.
ISBN
9783319686066 (electronic book)
3319686062 (electronic book)
9783319686059
3319686054
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68606-6
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-68606-6 doi
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HT166
Dewey Decimal Classification
307.1/216
Summary
This edited book investigates the interrelations of disaster impacts, resilience and security in an urban context. Urban as a term captures megacities, cities, and generally, human settlements, that are characterised by concentration of quantifiable and non-quantifiable subjects, objects and value attributions to them. The scope is to narrow down resilience from an all-encompassing concept to applied ways of scientifically attempting to?measure? this type of disaster related resilience. 28 chapters in this book reflect opportunities and doubts of the disaster risk science community regarding this?measurability?. Therefore, examples utilising both quantitative and qualitative approaches are juxtaposed. This book concentrates on features that are distinct characteristics of resilience, how they can be measured and in what sense they are different to vulnerability and risk parameters. Case studies in 11 countries either use a hypothetical pre-event estimation of resilience or are addressing a?revealed resilience? evident and documented after an event. Such information can be helpful to identify benchmarks or margins of impact magnitudes and related recovery times, volumes and qualities of affected populations and infrastructure.
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Fiedrich, Frank, editor.
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Urban book series.
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Urban disaster resilience and security.
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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
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