Overview
- Editors:
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Ann Bostrom
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Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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Steven French
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Georgia Institute of Technology, Center for Geographic Information Systems, College of Architecture, Atlanta, USA
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Sara Gottlieb
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Georgia Institute of Technology, Center for Geographic Information Systems, College of Architecture, Atlanta, USA
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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- Ann Bostrom, Steven P. French
Pages 1-4
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- Robert V. Whitman, Amr S. Elnashai, Dennis S. Mileti
Pages 83-100
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- Thomas S. Durham, Pushpendra Johari, Douglas Bausch
Pages 101-116
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- Rachel Davidson, Philip J. Schneider, Subrahmanyam Muthukumar
Pages 117-133
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- Ronald T. Eguchi, Hope A. Seligson
Pages 135-170
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- Stephanie Chang, Walter Gillis Peacock, Steven P. French
Pages 171-183
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- Mitchell J. Small, Bruce R. Ellingwood, Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio
Pages 199-226
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- Laurie Johnson, Mary Beth Hueste, Robert B. Olshansky, Yang Zhang
Pages 247-260
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- Ellen Peters, Ann Bostrom, Susan Cutter
Pages 295-318
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- Ann Bostrom, Steven P. French, Sara J. Gottlieb
Pages 319-321
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Back Matter
Pages 323-332
About this book
1 2 Ann Bostrom , Steven P. French 1,2 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA st The first years of the 21 century brought horrific loss of life and property from earthquakes and tsunamis worldwide. Briefly, the world focused on international disaster prevention, response and recovery. Terrorism loomed large as well, after 9–11, leading to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in the United States, and a plethora of related efforts globally. Many of these focus on the built environment. In the U.S. and elsewhere, large-scale infrastructure is stressed; roads, bridges, sewers, and dams built in the last century are deteriorating. Rising population is taxing existing infrastructure more and more as its reliability declines. As a society, we are developing dependencies on new kinds of infrastructure; these too are fragile and may age even less gracefully than sewers and roads. Our infrastructure – including human services, financial, and information – is both increasingly vulnerable and increasingly critical to society. Around the world, we are extending the built environment into incre- ingly fragile natural environments, raising the potential for catastrophe from natural disasters. Social, economic and environmental disparities are also growing between groups, both within the U.S. and between developed and developing countries, putting vulnerable groups even more at risk from extreme events.