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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780361003321

Titolo

Building safer cities : : the future of disaster risk / / edited by Alcira Kreimer, Margaret Arnold, Anne Carlin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , c2003

ISBN

1-280-08595-9

9786610085958

0-585-47955-0

Descrizione fisica

xxi, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; ; 28 cm

Collana

Disaster risk management series ; ; no. 3

Altri autori (Persone)

KreimerAlcira

ArnoldMargaret <1965->

CarlinAnne

Disciplina

363.34/

Soggetti

Emergency management - Developing countries

Disaster relief - Developing countries - Planning

Floods - Developing countries

Climatic changes - Risk assessment - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Contributors; Editors' Note; Part I Globalization and the Economic Impacts of Disasters; 1. Disasters, Vulnerability, and the Global Economy; 2. Natural Hazard Risk and Privatization; 3. Natural Disaster Risk and Cost-Benefit Analysis; 4. Globalization and Natural Disasters: An Integrative Risk Management Approach; 5. Urban Disasters and Globalization; 6. Interdependent Disaster Risks: The Need for Public-Private Partnerships