Overview
- Presents state-of-the-art international research in the field of risk perception/representation of natural hazards
- Illuminates the value of multi-disciplinary research in this field
- Highlights studies from a range of cultures
- Suggests alleys for infusing these ideas into risk management
Part of the book series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research (NTHR, volume 33)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
With the major growth of the world’s population over the past century, as well as rapid urbanisation, people increasingly live in crowded cities. This trend is often accompanied by proliferation of poorly built housing, uncontrolled use of land, occupation of unsafe environments and overstretched services. When a natural hazard strikes such a city many people are vulnerable to loss of life and property. This book explores what these people think and feel about the threats that they face. How do they live with perils ranging from earthquakes to monsoons, from floods to hurricanes, in the 21st century?
The authors are drawn from a large range of disciplines: Psychology, Engineering, Geography, Anthropology and Urban Planning. They also reflect on how perils are represented in multiple cultures: the United States, Japan, Turkey, Bangladesh, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. The book therefore not only brings to light the ways that different cultures represent natural hazards but also the different ways in which various disciplines write about living with perils in the 21st century.
The book is addressed both to researchers and to organizations involved with risk management and risk mitigation.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cities at Risk
Book Subtitle: Living with Perils in the 21st Century
Editors: Helene Joffe, Tiziana Rossetto, John Adams
Series Title: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6184-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6183-4Published: 10 April 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8326-2Published: 05 April 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6184-1Published: 27 March 2013
Series ISSN: 1878-9897
Series E-ISSN: 2213-6959
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 186
Topics: Natural Hazards, Earth Sciences, general, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, general