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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Building Urban Resilience: Principles, Tools, and Practice

Building Urban Resilience: Principles, Tools, and Practice

Miner, Todd W.
Jha, Abhas K.
Stanton-Geddes, Zuzana

Paperback

Series: Directions in Development - Environment and Sustainable Deve

Business GeneralEconomics

ISBN10: 0821388657
ISBN13: 9780821388655
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: Mar 6 2013
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.44 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Resilience is the ability of a system, community, or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to, and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner. Resilience in the context of cities translates into a new paradigm for urbanization, and forms base for a new understanding how to manage hazards and urban development. In the next decades, the major driver of the increasing damages and losses from disasters will be the growth of people and assets in harm's way, especially in urban areas. Often lacking resources, infrastructure, services and the capacity to manage the increase in population, small cities could face heavy losses of life and property due to disasters, unless proactive measures are mainstreamed into governance and planning.

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