Urban Planning for Disaster Recovery

• Author : Alan March,Maria Kornakova
• Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
• Release Date : 2017-05-10
• Total pages : 274
• ISBN : 0128043237

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Summary : Urban Planning for Disaster Recovery focuses on disaster recovery from the perspective of urban planning, an underutilized tactic that can significantly reduce disaster risks. The book examines disaster risk reduction (DRR), in particular, the recovery stage of what is widely known as the disaster cycle. The theoretical underpinning of the ...

• Author : Guangwei Huang,Zhenjiang Shen
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2018-05-30
• Total pages : 178
• ISBN : 0128043237

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Summary : Urban areas face daunting environmental, economic and social challenges that have increased in scope in recent years, especially given climate change and globalization. At the same time, cities provide exciting opportunities for growth and revitalization of local and national economies. The interplay of these challenges and opportunities create important tasks ...

• Author : Robert Olshansky
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2016-11-25
• Total pages : 1786
• ISBN : 0128043237

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Summary : This four-volume collection brings together the most important canonical and cutting-edge papers in the essential topic of planning after disasters. This is the first coherent academic reference work to date. These selections emphasize knowledge regarding reconstruction and recovery of communities, the policies designed to facilitate successful reconstruction, the processes of ...

• Author : Greiving, Stefan,Jaroslav Tešliar,Ubaura, Michio
• Publisher : Policy Press
• Release Date : 2017-12-06
• Total pages : 352
• ISBN : 0128043237

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Summary : International contributors from academia, research, policy and practice use their experience and knowledge to explore on-going efforts to improve spatial resilience across the globe and predict future trends....

• Author : Pedro Pinto Santos,Ksenia Chmutina,Jason Von Meding,Emmanuel Raju
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release Date : 2020-09-30
• Total pages : 370
• ISBN : 0128043237

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Summary : Understanding Disaster Risk: A Multidimensional Approach presents the first principle from the UNISDR Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2015-2030. The framework includes a discussion of risk and resilience from both a theoretical and governance perspective in light of ideas that are shaping our common future. In addition, it presents ...

• Author : Jordan Yin
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2012-03-13
• Total pages : 368
• ISBN : 0128043237

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Summary : How to create the world's new urban future With the majority of the world's population shifting to urban centres, urban planning—the practice of land-use and transportation planning to help shape cities structurally, economically, and socially—has become an increasingly vital profession. In Urban Planning For Dummies, readers will get ...

• Author : Manfred Schrenk,Peter Zeile,Vasily V. Popovich,Pietro Elisei
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release Date : 2012
• Total pages : 212
• ISBN : 0128043237

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Summary : Download or read online CORP 2012 Proceedings Tagungsband written by Manfred Schrenk,Peter Zeile,Vasily V. Popovich,Pietro Elisei, published by Lulu.com which was released on 2012. Get CORP 2012 Proceedings Tagungsband Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle....

• Author : Pierre Filion,Gary Sands
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2016-03-03
• Total pages : 232
• ISBN : 0128043237

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Summary : As levels of urbanization increase around the world, the growing concentrations of population and economic activity increases vulnerability to natural disasters. Interdependencies among urban populations mean that damage to the built environment, including water, sewer and energy infrastructure, can affect millions. Even if there is no change in the rate ...

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Edwards Information, LLC
• Release Date : 2008
• Total pages : 436
• ISBN : 0128043237

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Summary : Download or read online 2008 Edwards Disaster Recovery Directory written by , published by Edwards Information, LLC which was released on 2008. Get 2008 Edwards Disaster Recovery Directory Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle....

• Author : Mitsuhiko Kawakami,Zhen-jiang Shen,Jen-te Pai,Xiao-lu Gao,Ming Zhang
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release Date : 2013-02-28
• Total pages : 459
• ISBN : 0128043237

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Summary : This book attempts to provide insights into the achievement of a sustainable urban form, through spatial planning and implementation; here, we focus on planning experiences at the levels of local cities and some metropolitan areas in Asian countries. This book investigates the impact of planning policy on spatial planning implementation, ...

• Author : Saeid Eslamian
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release Date : 2022-07-01
• Total pages : 212
• ISBN : 0128043237

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Summary : Download or read online Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience written by Saeid Eslamian, published by Springer Nature which was released on . Get Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle....

• Author : Laura Centemeri,Sezin Topçu,J. Peter Burgess
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2021-11-19
• Total pages : 254
• ISBN : 0128043237

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Summary : This book presents an original interdisciplinary approach to the study of the so-called ‘recovery phase’ in disaster management, centered on the notion of repairing. The volume advances thinking on disaster recovery that goes beyond institutional and managerial challenges, descriptions, and analyses. It encourages socially, politically, and ethically engaged questioning of ...

• Author : Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2018-02-15
• Total pages : 279
• ISBN : 0128043237

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Summary : Through a synthesis of a broader inter-disciplinary literature in the field of disaster studies, organisation theory and management, and an in-depth case study this book provides an analytical framework for organising post-disaster reconstruction programmes which aim to reduce future disaster risks and achieve other objectives. It explores the role of ...

• Author : Michael K Lindell
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2019-07-30
• Total pages : 424
• ISBN : 0128043237

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Summary : The Routledge Handbook of Urban Disaster Resilience emphasizes the intersection of urban planning and hazard mitigation as critical for community resilience, considering the interaction of social, environmental, and physical systems with disasters. The Handbook introduces and discusses the phases of disaster – mitigation, preparedness/response, and recovery – as well as each ...

• Author : Nicholas A. Phelps
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2021-04-13
• Total pages : 248
• ISBN : 0128043237

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Summary : Urban planning is not just about applying a suite of systematic principles or plotting out pragmatic designs to satisfy the briefs of private developers or public bodies. Planning is also an activity of imagination, with a stock of wisdom and an array of useful methods for making decisions and getting ...