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NATO Science for Peace and Security Series - E: Human and Societal Dynamics

Volume 58, 2009
Building Safer Communities. Risk Governance, Spatial Planning and Responses to Natural Hazards
Edited by Urbano Fra Paleo

ISBN  978-1-60750-046-9 (print)
ISBN  978-1-60750-510-5 (online)
$196.00 / € 135,00

Contents
Front Matter   i - xv
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    Preface

Hazard Mitigation, Planning, and Disaster Resiliency: Challenges and Strategic Choices for the 21st Century   1 - 20
Philip Berke, Gavin Smith
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Command or Cooperate? Rethinking Traditional Central Governments' Hazard Mitigation Policies   21 - 33
Raymond J. Burby, Peter J. May
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Rethinking Risk Management Policies: From “Participation” to Processes of Dialogue, Debate, and Negotiation   34 - 43
John Forester, Reshmi Krishnan Theckethil
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Patterns of Risk: Spatial Planning as a Strategy for the Mitigation of Risk from Natural Hazards   44 - 60
David Etkin
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On Exposure to Natural Hazards: Revisiting a Neglected Primal Action   61 - 87
Urbano Fra Paleo
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Precaution and Science-Based Environmental Risk Management: Complementary not Contradictory   88 - 104
Dominique Bourg, Kerry H. Whiteside
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Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Urban Areas. A Role for Urban Planning   105 - 124
Roberto Sánchez Rodríguez
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Vulnerable to Flooding? Nature Development and ‘Room for the River’: A Governance Perspective   125 - 136
Ron Corvers
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Social Impact Assessment for Environmental Disaster Management   137 - 147
Rauno Sairinen
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Dynamics, Predictability and Risk Assessment of Natural Hazards   148 - 161
Teimuraz Matcharashvili, Tamaz Chelidze, Zurab Javakhishvili
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Principles of Emergency Planning: Standardisation, Integration and Sustainability   162 - 174
David Alexander
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The Challenges of Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery   175 - 181
Robert B. Olshansky
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Urban Water Governance as Part of a Strategy for Risk Mitigation, What is Different in Third World Cities?   182 - 200
Meine Pieter Van Dijk
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Achievements and Challenges of Integrating Risk Management into European Spatial Development Initiatives   201 - 218
Philipp Schmidt-Thomé, Michaela Gensheimer, René van der Lecq
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French Multiple Risk and Disaster Integral Management System within the European Union   219 - 225
François Mancebo
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A Framework for Using GIS and Stakeholder Input to Assess Vulnerability to Coastal Hazards: A Case Study from Sarasota County, Florida   226 - 245
Tim Frazier, Nathan Wood, Brent Yarnal
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Use of Emerging InSAR and LiDAR Remote Sensing Technologies to Anticipate and Monitor Critical Natural Hazards   246 - 267
Marius Necsoiu, Donald Hooper
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Subject Index   269 - 275
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Author Index   277
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