Sitewide Free Shipping - Limited Time Only - No Minimum Spend - T&C's Apply
Track My Order
Help Centre
Likes
My Wish ListsLogin / Join
Booktopia
Australia's local bookstore
Get Free Shipping on orders over $0
Urban Disaster Resilience and Security : Addressing Risks in Societies - Author

Urban Disaster Resilience and Security

Addressing Risks in Societies

By: Author

eText | 4 December 2017

At a Glance

eText

$319.00

or 4 interest-free payments of $79.75 with

 or 

Instant online reading in your Booktopia eTextbook Library *

Why choose an eTextbook?

Instant Access *

Purchase and read your book immediately

Read Aloud

Listen and follow along as Bookshelf reads to you

Study Tools

Built-in study tools like highlights and more

* eTextbooks are not downloadable to your eReader or an app and can be accessed via web browsers only. You must be connected to the internet and have no technical issues with your device or browser that could prevent the eTextbook from operating.

This edited book investigates the interrelations of disaster impacts, resilience and security in an urban context. Urban as a term captures megacities, cities, and generally, human settlements, that are characterised by concentration of quantifiable and non-quantifiable subjects, objects and value attributions to them. The scope is to narrow down resilience from an all-encompassing concept to applied ways of scientifically attempting to ,measure' this type of disaster related resilience. 28 chapters in this book reflect opportunities and doubts of the disaster risk science community regarding this ,measurability'. Therefore, examples utilising both quantitative and qualitative approaches are juxtaposed. This book concentrates on features that are distinct characteristics of resilience, how they can be measured and in what sense they are different to vulnerability and risk parameters. Case studies in 11 countries either use a hypothetical pre-event estimation of resilience or are addressing a 'revealed resilience' evident and documented after an event. Such information can be helpful to identify benchmarks or margins of impact magnitudes and related recovery times, volumes and qualities of affected populations and infrastructure.

on
Desktop
Tablet
Mobile

You Can Find This eBook In

Non-FictionEarth Sciences, Geography, Environment, PlanningGeographyRegional & Area PlanningUrban & Municipal PlanningThe EnvironmentNatural DisastersEngineering & TechnologyEnvironmental ScienceEconomicsDevelopment Economics & Emerging EconomiesEnvironmental Management
Civil EngineeringHighway & Traffic EngineeringBusiness & ManagementManagement & Management TechniquesSociety & CultureSocial GroupsUrban CommunitiesSociology & AnthropologySociology

More in Natural Disasters

Why New Orleans Matters - Tom Piazza

eBOOK

Why New Orleans Matters

eBook

$8.99

Voyage For Madmen, A - Peter Nichols

eBOOK

Voyage For Madmen, A

eBook

$12.99

Stormbringer (ebook) : Storm Chasers : Book 1 - Tig Wallace

eBOOK

Stormbringer (ebook)

Storm Chasers : Book 1

eBook

RRP $15.80

$12.99

18%
OFF

This product is categorised by