Urban Disaster Resilience and Security Addressing Risks in Societies /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Fekete, Alexander (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Fiedrich, Frank (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: The Urban Book Series,
• Θέματα: Urban geography.; Natural disasters.; Environmental management.; Industrial management-Environmental aspects.; Transportation engineering.; Traffic engineering.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Natural Hazards.; Environmental Management.; Sustainability Management.; Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering.

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 a...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.