Building Safer Communities: Risk Governance, Spatial Planning and Responses to Natural HazardsUrbano Fra Paleo IOS Press, 2009 - 277 páginas This book is a collection of essays, bringing together seventeen contributions from different disciplines, with various, but complementary points of view, to discuss the directions and key components of risk governance. Some of the many issues of interest to risk scholars addressed in this work include the analysis of proactive approaches to the governance of risk from natural hazards; approaches to broaden the scope of public policies related to the management of risks from natural hazards, including emergency and environmental management, community development and spatial planning. |
Índice
Challenges and Strategic Choices for the 21st Century | 1 |
Command or Cooperate? Rethinking Traditional Central Governments Hazard Mitigation Policies | 21 |
From Participation to Processes of Dialogue Debate and Negotiation | 34 |
Spatial Planning as a Strategy for the Mitigation of Risk from Natural Hazards | 44 |
Revisiting a Neglected Primal Action | 61 |
Complementary not Contradictory | 88 |
Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Urban Areas A Role for Urban Planning | 105 |
A Governance Perspective | 125 |
Standardisation Integration and Sustainability | 162 |
The Challenges of Planning for PostDisaster Recovery | 175 |
Urban Water Governance as Part of a Strategy for Risk Mitigation What Is Different in Third World Cities? | 182 |
Achievements and Challenges of Integrating Risk Management into European Spatial Development Initiatives | 201 |
French Multiple Risk and Disaster Integral Management System within the European Union | 219 |
A Case Study from Sarasota County Florida | 226 |
Use of Emerging InSAR and LiDAR Remote Sensing Technologies to Anticipate and Monitor Critical Natural Hazards | 246 |
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Social Impact Assessment for Environmental Disaster Management | 137 |
Dynamics Predictability and Risk Assessment of Natural Hazards | 148 |
Author Index | 277 |
Términos y frases comunes
Accra action adaptation to climate analysis approach building capacity climate change coastal command-and-control complex concept consequences cooperative decision-making decisions disaster resiliency dynamics earthquake ecological economic effects emergency management emergency planning environment ESPON example exposure extreme events flood framework future Gelderse Poort Ghana Global Environmental Change goals groups hazard mitigation human hurricane Hurricane Katrina identified implementation increase infrastructure InSAR integrated interactions International IOS Press issues knowledge land landslides LiDAR maps measures mitigation planning monitoring natural hazards needs negotiation participation participatory perspective population post-disaster potential precautionary principle prediction problems programs recovery reduce regional remote sensing response result risk management rivers role Sarasota Sarasota County scenarios Science scientific sea level rise seismic social social impact assessment society spatial planning stakeholders storm surge strategies structure sustainable development technologies territorial understanding University urban areas urban planning zones