Hazards and the built environment : attaining built-in resilience

1. Introduction : the need for built-in resilience / Lee Bosher

2. Mainstreaming disaster risk management / David Alexander

3. Construction in developing nations : towards increased resilience to disasters / George Ofori

4. More to lose : the case for prevention, loans for strengthening, and one day 'safe housing' insurance; the case of central Vietnam / John Norton and Guillaume Chantry

5. Structural adaptation in India : learning lessons from tradition / Rohit Jigyasu

6. Developments in seismic design and retrofit of structures : modern technology built on 'ancient wisdom' / Stefano Pampanini

7. Residential properties in England and Wales : an evaluation of repair strategies towards attaining flood resilience / Robby Soetanto and others

8. Public attitudes to 'community based' small scale flood risk reduction measures in England : a case study in the lower Thames catchment / Simon McCarthy, Edmund Penning-Rowsell, and Sylvia Tunstall

9. Facing the future by designing in resilience; an architectural perspective / Jacqueline Glass

10. Community-based construction for disaster risk reduction / Marla Petal and others

11. Informal settlements and natural hazard vulnerability in rapid growth cities / Rebekah Green

12. The worm in the bud : corruption, construction and catastrophe / James Lewis

13. Building resilience by focusing on legal and contractual frameworks for disaster reconstruction / Jason Le Masurier and others

14. The implications of the civil contingencies act (CCA) 2004 for engineers in the UK / Andrew Fox

15. Security planning in the resilient city : stimulating integrated emergency planning and management / Jon Coaffee

16. 'Planning ahead' : adapting settlements before disasters strike / Christine Wamsler

17. Afterword : integrating resilience into construction practice / Andrew Dainty and Lee Bosher