Search Results for: Disaster Risk Reduction For The Built Environment

Disaster Risk Reduction for the Built Environment provides a multi-facetted introduction to how a wide range of risk reduction options can be mainstreamed into

Presenting a range of multi-hazard adaptation issues, this book illustrates that non-structural as well as structural adaptations need to be considered in order

Disasters threaten all parts of the world and they appear to be increasing in frequency, scale and intensity. Despite huge improvements in the emergency respons

Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies