Urban Disaster Resilience (eBook, ePUB)

New Dimensions from International Practice in the Built Environment
Redaktion: Sanderson, David; Leis, Julia; Kayden, Jerold

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Design for Urban Disaster brings together writings from humanitarian aid workers and built environmental practitioners to address the crucial questions around improving disaster response, building long term resilience and transformation, which explores the fundamental changes that reduce or even prevent future disaster.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317533948
• Artikelnr.: 44896468

Autorenporträt

David Sanderson is the Inaugural Judith Neilson Chair of Architecture at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. He has held senior posts in both NGO and academic sectors, and has carried out work for a number of NGOs and donor organizations. In recent years he has led post-disaster reviews in Haiti, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, the Philippines and Nepal. Jerold S. Kayden is the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He has consulted for the World Bank, USAID and UNDP, worldwide, and served as principal investigator of the Harvard-Netherlands Project on Climate Change, Water, Land Development, and Adaptation. He is an affiliated faculty member of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI). Julia Leis is a humanitarian relief and development worker. She has completed assignments in the Philippines, Gaza, Burkina Faso and Thailand. She holds a Master of Arts from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I. Urban planning, design and cities 1. Designing
resilient cities and neighborhoods 2. Reconstructing the city: the
potential gains of using urban planning and design practices in recovery
and why they are so difficult to achieve 3. Fables from the reconstruction:
lessons from Chile's recovery after the 2010 earthquake and tsunami 4.
Risk, resilience and the fragile city Part II. People, places, complex
systems and regulation 5. Urban disaster resilience: learning from the 2011
Bangkok, Thailand, flood using morphology and complex adaptive systems 6.
Regulatory barriers and the provision of shelter in post-disaster
situations: housing, land and property (HLP) issues in the recovery of
Tacloban, the Philippines, after Typhoon Haiyan 7. How does reconstruction
after disaster affect long-term resilience? 8. Conflict and urban
displacement: the impact on Kurdish place-identity in Erbil, Iraq Part III.
Urban markets, micro-enterprise, insurance and technology 9. Linking
response, recovery and resilience to markets in humanitarian action 10.
Petty trade and the private sector in urban reconstruction: learning from
Haiti's post-earthquake Iron Market 11. Using disaster insurance to build
urban resilience: lessons from micro-enterprise in India 12. 'Humanitarian
hybrids': new technologies and humanitarian resilience Epilogue
Reflections on the practice of disaster resilience