Building Urban Resilience: Principles, Tools, and Practice - Couverture souple

Jha, Abhas K.

 
9780821388655: Building Urban Resilience: Principles, Tools, and Practice
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0821388657 ISBN 13 : 9780821388655
Editeur : World Bank Publications, 2013

Synopsis

Resilience is the ability of a system, community, or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to, and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner. Resilience in the context of cities translates into a new paradigm for urbanization, and forms base for a new understanding how to manage hazards and urban development. In the next decades, the major driver of the increasing damages and losses from disasters will be the growth of people and assets in harm's way, especially in urban areas. Often lacking resources, infrastructure, services and the capacity to manage the increase in population, small cities could face heavy losses of life and property due to disasters, unless proactive measures are mainstreamed into governance and planning.

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Éditeur
World Bank Publications
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0821388657
ISBN 13 
9780821388655
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
160
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1299333656 ISBN 13 :  9781299333659
Editeur : WORLD BANK PUBN, 2013
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