Hazards and the Built Environment: Attaining Built-in Resilience

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Lee Bosher
Routledge, May 6, 2008 - Business & Economics - 400 pages

As a specialist in disaster preparation, you have huge responsibilities: a failure to prepare for natural and human-induced disasters costs lives and money. When a natural or human-induced disaster hits a built-up area the amount of damage it does will depend largely on the extent to which the built assets in the area were developed to withstand it. To fail in this respect is therefore both ethically and financially negligent.

What kinds of structural and non-structural alterations can be made to protect buildings from large-scale disasters?

How can we reduce the threat of these disasters, as well as the damage they cause?

Presenting seven guiding principles, drawn from a broad range of disciplines and approaches, this book tackles the difficult questions about what can be done to attain built-in resilience. With contributions from many renowned experts and upcoming researchers in the fields concerned, it comprehensively assesses the wide range of issues faced by practitioners. Whether you're studying construction management, researching hazard resilience issues or working on construction projects in hazardous regions, this book is for you.

 

Contents

List of figures
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cities
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List of contributors
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Construction in developing nations Towards increased resilience
More to lose The case for prevention loans for strengthening and safe
Structural adaptation in South Asia Learning lessons from tradition
Developments in seismic design and retrofit of structures Modern
Residential properties in England and Wales An evaluation of repair
Public attitudes to communitybased smallscale flood risk reduction
Facing the future by designing in resilience An architectural perspective
Communitybased construction for disaster risk reduction
Planning ahead Adapting settlements before disasters strike
Afterword Integrating resilience into construction practice
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Lee Bosher is a research fellow in the Department of Civil and Building Engineering at Loughborough University, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a Member of the Institute of Civil Defence and Disaster Studies.

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