Constructing Risk: Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment

✍ Scribed by Stephen O. Bender

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 280
• Series: Catastrophes in Context; 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

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