White Paper on the SDR Grand Challenges for Disaster Reduction
Author : Michel Bruneau
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Page : 38 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2005
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Author : Michel Bruneau
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Page : 38 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2005
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Page : 26 pages
File Size : 42,81 MB
Release : 2005
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Despite significant progress in the application of science and technology to disaster reduction, communities are still challenged by disaster preparation, response, and recovery. We have reduced the number of lives lost each year to natural disasters, but the costs of major disasters continue to rise. A primary focus on response and recovery is an impractical and inefficient strategy for dealing with these ongoing threats. Instead, communities must break the cycle of destruction and recovery by enhancing their disaster resilience. The Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction identified four key characteristics of disaster-resilient communities: * Relevant hazards are recognized and understood. * Communities at risk know when a hazard event is imminent. * Individuals at risk are safe from hazards in their homes and places of work. * Disaster-resilient communities experience minimum disruption to life and economy after a hazard event has passed. High-priority science and technology investments, coupled with sound decision-making at all levels, will dramatically enhance community resilience and thus reduce vulnerability. In support of this goal, six Grand Challenges in this report provide a framework for sustained Federal investment in science and technology related to disaster reduction.
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Page : 26 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 2005
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Despite significant progress in the application of science and technology to disaster reduction, communities are still challenged by disaster preparation, response, and recovery. We have reduced the number of lives lost each year to natural disasters, but the costs of major disasters continue to rise. A primary focus on response and recovery is an impractical and inefficient strategy for dealing with these ongoing threats. Instead, communities must break the cycle of destruction and recovery by enhancing their disaster resilience. The Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction identified four key characteristics of disaster-resilient communities: * Relevant hazards are recognized and understood. * Communities at risk know when a hazard event is imminent. * Individuals at risk are safe from hazards in their homes and places of work. * Disaster-resilient communities experience minimum disruption to life and economy after a hazard event has passed. High-priority science and technology investments, coupled with sound decision-making at all levels, will dramatically enhance community resilience and thus reduce vulnerability. In support of this goal, six Grand Challenges in this report provide a framework for sustained Federal investment in science and technology related to disaster reduction.
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Page : 21 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Disaster relief
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Author : R.D.J.M. Steenbergen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 3422 pages
File Size : 38,90 MB
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1315815591
Methods of risk and reliability analysis are becoming increasingly important as decision support tools in various fields of engineering. Safety, Reliability and Risk Analysis: Beyond the Horizon covers a wide range of topics for which risk analysis forms an indispensable field of knowledge to ensure sufficient safety.
Author : Executive Office of the President
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 25,44 MB
Release : 2005
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Author : Ayda Eraydin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9400754760
There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology. The increased frequency and widening diversity of problems offer evidence that the socio-economic and spatial policies, planning and practices introduced under the neoliberal agenda can no longer be sustained. As this shortfall was becoming more evident among urban policymakers, planners, and researchers in different parts of the world, a group of discontent researchers began searching for new approaches to addressing the increasing vulnerabilities of urban systems in the wake of growing socio-economic and ecological problems. This book is the joint effort of those who have long felt that contemporary planning systems and policies are inadequate in preparing cities for the future in an increasingly neoliberalising world. It argues that “resilience thinking” can form the basis of an alternative approach to planning. Drawing upon case studies from five cities in Europe, namely Lisbon, Porto, Istanbul, Stockholm, and Rotterdam, the book makes an exploration of the resilience perspective, raising a number of theoretical debates, and suggesting a new methodological approach based on empirical evidence. This book provides insights for intellectuals exploring alternative perspectives and principles of a new planning approach.
Author : Xueming Chen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 19,83 MB
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319141457
This book discusses a range of planning and management issues related to building urban resiliency. It covers such topics as urban, environmental, and transportation planning, historical preservation, emergency relief and management, geographic information systems (GIS) and other technological applications. The book includes case studies of several cities and districts in China, including Shanghai, and a number of cities in the United States of America. Urban resiliency in the face of uncertainty is a priority for planning and governance in communities worldwide. In China, which has suffered many of the world’s most devastating floods, earthquakes, and typhoons, preparing for the threat of disaster has long been an important planning objective. Recent calamities, such as the 2008 Winter Storms, the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, and the 2012 Beijing Floods have only made planning for resiliency more urgent. As planners work to prepare for such events, interdisciplinary collaboration becomes increasingly important. Planners need the tools and insights offered by other fields, including both the natural and social sciences. At the same time, these interdisciplinary relationships help shape the identity of urban-rural planning in its new role as one of China’s primary academic disciplines. Thus, the nexus between planning and science is critically important in building resilient cities in China, and the Chinese planning experience can serve as an example to and benefit countries around the world.
Author : Sulfikar Amir
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 35,66 MB
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811085099
This book considers the concept of resilience in a global society where coping with the consequence and long term impact of crisis and disaster challenges the capacity of communities to bounce back in the event of severe disruption. Catastrophic events such as the 9.11 terrorist attack, the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and the volcano eruption in Central Java entailed massive devastation on physical infrastructures, and caused significant social and economic damage. This book considers how the modern sociotechnological system facilitating human activity defines how societies survive and whether a crisis will be short-lived or prolonged. Drawing on the concept of sociotechnical resilience, this book closely examines a range of events North America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. By presenting the successes and failures of sociotechnical resilience, it offers important insights and practical lessons to build better and comprehensive understandings of resilience in a real-world setting, significantly contributing to the study of disaster resilience.
Author : Ryan Colker
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0128162414
Optimizing Community Infrastructure: Resilience in the Face of Shocks and Stresses examines the resilience measures being deployed within individual disciplines and sectors and how multi-stakeholder efforts can catalyze action to address global challenges in preparedness and disaster and hazard mitigation. The book provides a theoretical framework to advance thinking on creating resilient, inclusive, sustainable and safe communities. Users will find an accurate and up-to-date guide for working on the development, implementation, monitoring and assessment of policies, programs and projects related to community resilience. Provides updated information on resilience, especially on infrastructure, finance, land use, standards and policies Includes case studies that illustrate how communities have increased their resilience to natural and other disasters Analyzes the institutional, political, social and economic dimensions of resilience at the community level Illustrates the interdependencies and interconnectedness of infrastructure systems and how community resilience relies on a holistic approach Examines responses to emerging risks associated with climate change