Resilience and urban risk management. (©2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors, Damien Serre, Bruno Barroca, Richard Laganier.
• Other Names: Serre, Damien; Barroca, Bruno; Laganier, Richard; Conference 'How the Concept of Resilience Is Able to Improve Urban Risk Management? a Temporal and a Spatial Analysis'
• Contents: Front Cover; Resilience and Urban Risk Management; Copyright; Table of Contents; Preface; About the editors; Sponsors; Resiliencery Vulnerability notion-looking in another direction in order to study risks and disasters; Using the geo-archaeological approach to explain past urban hazards; Evolution of natural hazard assessment and response methods; The rise of resilience in large metropolitan areas: Progress and hold backs in the Parisian experience; Flood-proof ecocities: Technology, design and governance; The resilience engineering offer for municipalities. Strategies of urban flood integration-Zollhafen MainzThe Dutch room for the River programme and its European dimension; Managing urban flooding in the face of continuous change; Urban resilience in post-Katrina/Rita New Orleans; Assessing the resilience of urban technical networks: From theoryto application to waste management; Urban technical networks resilience assessment; Organizational resilience: A multidisciplinary sociotechnical challenge; Resilience-based design for urban cities; An auto-diagnosis tool to improve urban resilience: The RATP case study. Flood resilience assessment of New Orleans neighborhood over timeResilience: A pragmatic approach to the concept through the creation of the Ile-de-France (IdF) regional master plan; Trying to avoid discrepancies between flood victims mobilisations and urban runoffs management policies in order to improve resilience: The case of the Bièvre river catchment; Back Cover.
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 178 pages)
• Subjects: 307.76; Urban ecology (Sociology); City planning -- Environmental aspects; Emergency management; Risk management; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban; City planning -- Environmental aspects; Emergency management; Risk management; Urban ecology (Sociology); Stadtplanung; Risikomanagement; Stadt; Sozialökologie; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780203072820; 0203072820
• Related ISBNs: 9780415621472; 041562147X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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