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Resilience and Sustainability in Relation to Natural Disasters: A Challenge for Future Cities

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Editors:
  1. Paolo Gasparini

    1. AMRA Scarl, Naples, Italy

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  2. Gaetano Manfredi

    1. Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture, University of Napoli "Federico II", Naples, Italy

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  3. Domenico Asprone

    1. Structures for Engineering and Architecture, University of Napoli "Federico II", Naples, Italy

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Economic Resilience and Its Contribution to the Sustainability of Cities

    • Adam Rose
    Pages 1-11

  3. Modeling Social Networks and Community Resilience in Chronic Disasters: Case Studies from Volcanic Areas in Ecuador and Mexico

    • Graham A. Tobin, Linda M. Whiteford, Arthur D. Murphy, Eric C. Jones, Christopher McCarty
    Pages 13-24

  4. Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Planning in African Cities: The CLUVA Project

    • Gertrud Jørgensen, Lise Byskov Herslund, Dorthe Hedensted Lund, Abraham Workneh, Wilbard Kombe, Souleymane Gueye
    Pages 25-37

  5. “Resilience for All” and “Collective Resilience”: Are These Planning Objectives Consistent with One Another?

    • Kalliopi Sapountzaki
    Pages 39-53

  6. Linking Sustainability and Resilience of Future Cities

    • D. Asprone, A. Prota, G. Manfredi
    Pages 55-65

  7. Natural Hazards Impacting on Future Cities

    • Paolo Gasparini, Angela Di Ruocco, Raffaella Russo
    Pages 67-76

  8. Resilience and Sustainability in Relation to Disasters: A Challenge for Future Cities: Common Vision and Recommendations

    • Gaetano Manfredi, Adam Rose, Kalliopi Sapountzaki, Gertrud Jørgensen, Edith Callaghan, Graham Tobin et al.
    Pages 77-79
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The number of megacities worldwide is rapidly increasing and contemporary cities are also expanding fast. As a result, cities and their inhabitants are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the effects of catastrophic natural events such as extreme weather events (recently more frequent and intense as a result of the ongoing climate changes), earthquakes, tsunamis or man-induced events such as terrorist attacks or accidents. Furthermore, due to increasing technological complexity of urban areas, along with increasing population density, cities are becoming more and more risk attractors.

The resilience of cities against catastrophic events is a major challenge of today. It requires city transformation processes to be rethought, to mitigate the effects of extreme events on the vital functions of cities and communities. Redundancy and robustness of the components of the urban fabric are essential to restore the full efficiency of the city's vital functions after an extreme event has taken place. These items were addressed by an interdisciplinary and international selection of scientists during the 6th UN-World Urban Forum that was held in Naples, Italy in September 2012.

This volume represents in six chapters the views from sociologists, economists and scientists working on natural risk and physical vulnerability on resilience and sustainability for future cities in relation to natural disasters.

Editors and Affiliations

  • AMRA Scarl, Naples, Italy

    Paolo Gasparini

  • Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture, University of Napoli "Federico II", Naples, Italy

    Gaetano Manfredi

  • Structures for Engineering and Architecture, University of Napoli "Federico II", Naples, Italy

    Domenico Asprone

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