Hazards and the Built Environment : Attaining Built-in Resilience

ISBN-13: 9780415427296 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 382 str.

Bosher Lee

Opis

Presenting a range of multi-hazard adaptation issues, this book illustrates that non-structural as well as structural adaptations need to be considered in order to reduce the threat, and impact, of disasters in the built environment.

Spis treści

1. Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management  2. Construction in Developing Nations  3. The Case of Central Vietnam  4. Structural Adaptation in India  5. Developments in Seismic Design and Retrofit of Structures  6. Flood Resilience in Residential Properties in England and Wales  7. Public Attitudes to ‘Community Based’ Small Scale Flood Risk Reduction Measures in England  8. Facing the Future by Designing in Resilience  9. Community-Based Construction for Disaster Risk Reduction  10. Informal Settlements and Natural Hazard Vulnerability in Rapid Growth Cities  11. Corruption, Construction and Catastrophe  12. Building Resilience by Focusing on Legal and Contractual Frameworks for Disaster Reconstruction  13. The Implications of the Civil Contingencies Act (CCA) 2004 for Engineers in the UK  14. Security Planning in the Resilient City  15. Adapting Settlements Before Disasters Strike

O autorze

Lee Bosher is a research fellow in the Department of Civil and Building Engineering at Loughborough University, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a Member of the Institute of Civil Defence and Disaster Studies.