Hazards and the Built Environment - Attaining Built-In Resilience

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Exploring the challenges facing the built environment! this book examines the strategies that must be taken if built-in resilience is to be realised and built assets safeguarded. It provides seven guiding principles in relation to the ways in which construction practitioners might adapt their modus operandi to better address a range of hazards. Zusammenfassung 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 to reduce the threat, and impact, of disasters in the built environment. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management 2. Construction in Developing Nations 3. The Case of Central Vietnam 4. Structural Adaptation in India 5. Developments in Seismic Design and Retrofit of Structures 6. Flood Resilience in Residential Properties in England and Wales 7. Public Attitudes to ‘Community Based’ Small Scale Flood Risk Reduction Measures in England 8. Facing the Future by Designing in Resilience 9. Community-Based Construction for Disaster Risk Reduction 10. Informal Settlements and Natural Hazard Vulnerability in Rapid Growth Cities 11. Corruption, Construction and Catastrophe 12. Building Resilience by Focusing on Legal and Contractual Frameworks for Disaster Reconstruction 13. The Implications of the Civil Contingencies Act (CCA) 2004 for Engineers in the UK 14. Security Planning in the Resilient City 15. Adapting Settlements Before Disasters Strike

Product details

• Authors: Lee Bosher, Lee (Loughborough University Bosher
• Assisted by: Lee Bosher (Editor), Lee (Loughborough University Bosher (Editor), Bosher Lee (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.05.2008
• EAN: 9780415427302
• ISBN: 978-0-415-42730-2
• No. of pages: 382
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Geography, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General), TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Construction / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional, environmental science, engineering & technology, Natural disasters, Building construction & materials, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Building construction and materials