Constructing Risk: Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment

Constructing Risk: Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment
ISBN-10
1805394231
ISBN-13
9781805394235
Category
Social Science
Pages
390
Language
English
Published
2021-08-13
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Author
Stephen O. Bender

Description

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.

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