Constructing Risk : : Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment / / Stephen O. Bender.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Bender, Stephen O.,
• MitwirkendeR: Lavell, Allan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Catastrophes in Context ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chronology: Stakeholder Statements on Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment -- 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 Disaster Risk Reduction in Development of the Built Environment -- CHAPTER 8 Making Risk Information Visible -- CHAPTER 9 Risk within Present and Emerging Economic Development Forces -- Part III DISASTER RISK REDUCTION 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 Disaster Risk Reduction Taken to Development -- CHAPTER 15 What Has Been Found about the Future: Changes That Change Positions -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- Index