Urban Disaster Resilience and Security

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction to ‘Urban Disaster Resilience and Security—Addressing Risks in Societies’

   • Alexander Fekete, Frank Fiedrich

   Pages 1-9

3. Planning Urban Resilience

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Nepal and the “Urban Resilience Utopia”

      • Johannes Anhorn

      Pages 13-26

   3. Exploring the Role of Planning in Urban Resilience Enhancement—An Irish Perspective

      • Aoife Doyle, William Hynes, Stephen M. Purcell, Maria Rochford

      Pages 27-39

   4. Toward Climate Resilience in the USA: From Federal to Local Level Initiatives and Practices Since the 2000s

      • Ebru A. Gencer, Wesley Rhodes

      Pages 41-52

   5. Enhancing Resilience Towards Summer Storms from a Spatial Planning Perspective—Lessons Learned from Summer Storm Ela

      • Hanna Christine Schmitt, Stefan Greiving

      Pages 53-69

   6. Measuring Urban Resilience to Natural Disasters for Iranian Cities: Challenges and Key Concepts

      • Solmaz Hosseinioon

      Pages 71-89

   7. Resilience History and Focus in the USA

      • Ronald Fisher, Michael Norman, James Peerenboom

      Pages 91-109

4. Organizing Professionals and the People

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. Integrating Volunteers in Emergency Response: A Strategy for Increased Resilience Within German Civil Security Research

      • Jens Hälterlein, Linda Madsen, Agnetha Schuchardt, Roman Peperhove, Lars Gerhold

      Pages 113-128

   3. Contributions of Flood Insurance to Enhance Resilience–Findings from Germany

      • Annegret H. Thieken

      Pages 129-144

   4. Collaborative Emergency Supply Chains for Essential Goods and Services

      • Marcus Wiens, Frank Schätter, Christopher W. Zobel, Frank Schultmann

      Pages 145-168

5. Urban Resilience Assessment: Methods and Challenges

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. Competence as Enabler of Urban Critical Infrastructure Resilience Assessment

      • Florian Brauner, Marie Claßen, Frank Fiedrich

      Pages 171-184

   3. Resilient Disaster Recovery: The Role of Health Impact Assessment

      • James K. Mitchell

      Pages 185-205

   4. DS3 Model Testing: Assessing Critical Infrastructure Network Flood Resilience at the Neighbourhood Scale

      • Damien Serre

      Pages 207-220

   5. Enhancing Flood Resilience Through Collaborative Modelling and Multi-criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA)

      • Mariele Evers, Adrian Almoradie, Mariana Madruga de Brito

      Pages 221-236

6. Urban Critical Infrastructure and Security

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237

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   2. An Approach for Quantifying the Multidimensional Nature of Disaster Resilience in the Context of Municipal Service Provision

      • Christopher W. Zobel, Milad Baghersad, Yang Zhang

      Pages 239-259

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.

• Urban Resilience
• Urban Risk Assessment
• Resilience Measurability
• Urban Infrastructure
• City Management
• urban geography and urbanism
• sustainability

• Institute of Rescue Engineering and Civil Protection, TH Köln—University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany

  Alexander Fekete

• Institute for Public Safety and Emergency Management, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

  Frank Fiedrich

Dr. Alexander Fekete is Professor of Risk and Crisis Management at the Institute for Rescue Engineering and Security (IRG) at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences. His present research focuses on studying the systemic interrelations of natural, technical and man-made hazards with social vulnerabilities and critical infrastructures. Interdisciplinary disaster risk management, risk governance, urban resilience, risk and crisis communication, and target levels of safety and security are recent research and educational activities.


Prof. Frank Fiedrich studied Industrial Engineering and received his Ph.D. from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, where he worked on Decision Support Systems and Agent-based Simulation for disaster response. From 2005 to 2009, he was Assistant Professor at the Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management ICDRM at the George Washington University, Washington DC. Since 2009, he is chairing the Institutefor Public Safety and Emergency Management at the University of Wuppertal. His research interests include the use of information and communication technology for disaster and crisis management, societal, organisational and urban resilience, interorganizational decision-making, critical infrastructure protection and societal aspects of safety and security technologies. Additionally, Professor Fiedrich is honorary member of the International Association for Information Systems in Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM).

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