Building safer communities [electronic resource] : risk governance, spatial planning and responses to natural hazards / edited by Urbano Fra Paleo.

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ISBN:

9781607505105

Title:

Building safer communities [electronic resource] : risk governance, spatial planning and responses to natural hazards / edited by Urbano Fra Paleo.

Author:

Paleo, Urbano Fra.

Publication Information:

Amsterdam ; Washington, DC : Ios Press, 2009.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 277 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

NATO science for peace and security series. E : Human and societal dynamics ; vol. 58

General Note:

"Published in cooperation with NATO Public Diplomacy Division."

"Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Spatial Planning as a Strategy for Migration and Adaptation to Natural Hazards, Santiago de Compostela, 3-8 March 2008"--Title page verso.

Contents:

Urban Water Governance as Part of a Strategy for Risk Mitigation, What Is Different in Third World Cities?Achievements and Challenges of Integrating Risk Management into European Spatial Development Initiatives; French Multiple Risk and Disaster Integral Management System within the European Union; A Framework for Using GIS and Stakeholder Input to Assess Vulnerability to Coastal Hazards: A Case Study from Sarasota County, Florida; Use of Emerging InSAR and LiDAR Remote Sensing Technologies to Anticipate and Monitor Critical Natural Hazards; Subject Index; Author Index.

Local Note:

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Subject Term:

Land use -- Planning.

Natural disasters -- Risk assessment.

Emergency management.

Regional planning.

Added Author:

Paleo, Urbano Fra.

Added Corporate Author:

IOS Press.

Added Conference Author:

NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Spatial Planning as a Strategy for Migration and Adaptation to Natural Hazards (2008 : Santiago de Compostela, Spain.)

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2009

Publication Information:

Amsterdam ; Washington, DC : Ios Press, 2009.

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Summary

This book is a collection of essays, bringing together seventeen contributions from different disciplines, with various but complementary points of view, to discuss the directions and key components of risk governance. Some of the many issues of interest to risk scholars addressed in this work include: the analysis of proactive approaches to the governance of risk from natural hazards; approaches to broaden the scope of public policies related to the management of risks from natural hazards, including emergency and environmental management, community development and spatial planning. The texts further explore how spatial planning can contribute to risk governance by influencing the occupation of hazard-prone areas, and review the central role of emergency management in risk policy. This work will contribute significantly to the augmentation of the conceptual framework of risk governance and increase the awareness of practitioners and decision-makers to the need to adopt proactive policies, leading to a more integrated, participative, and adaptive governance that can respond more efficiently to the increasing uncertainty resulting from escalating risk exposure and global environmental change.

Excerpts

This book is a collection of essays, bringing together seventeen contributions from different disciplines, with various but complementary points of view, to discuss the directions and key components of risk governance. Some of the many issues of interest to risk scholars addressed in this work include: the analysis of proactive approaches to the governance of risk from natural hazards; approaches to broaden the scope of public policies related to the management of risks from natural hazards, including eergency and environmental management, community development and spatial planning. The texts further explore how spatial planning can contribute to risk governance by influencing the occupation of hazard-prone areas, and review the central role of emergenc management in risk policy. This work will contribute significantly to the augmentation of the conceptual framework of risk governance and increase the awareness of practitioners and decision-makers to the need to adopt proactive policies, leading to a ore integrated, participative, and adaptive governance that can respond more efficiently to the increasing uncertainty resulting from escalating risk exposure and global environmental change. Excerpted from Building Safer Communities. Risk Governance, Spatial Planning and Responses to Natural Hazards All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.