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100 1 _aGasparini, Paolo.
_eeditor.
245 1 0 _aResilience and Sustainability in Relation to Natural Disasters: A Challenge for Future Cities
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by Paolo Gasparini, Gaetano Manfredi, Domenico Asprone.
264 1 _aCham :
_bSpringer International Publishing :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2014.
300 _aIX, 79 p. 11 illus. in color.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aSpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences,
_x2191-5369
505 0 _aEconomic Resilience and Its Contribution to the Sustainability of Cities -- Modeling Social Networks and Community Resilience in Chronic Disasters: Case Studies from volcanic areas in Ecuador and Mexico -- Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Planning in African Cities – The CLUVA project -- “Resilience for All” and “Collective Resilience”: Are These Planning Objectives Consistent with One Another? -- Linking Sustainability and Resilience of Future Cities -- Natural Hazards Impacting on Future Cities -- “Resilience and sustainability in Relation to Disasters: A Challenge for Future Cities” – Common Vision and Recommendations.
520 _aThe number of megacities worldwide is rapidly increasing and  contemporary cities are also expanding fast. As a result, cities and their inhabitants are becoming  increasingly vulnerable to the effects of catastrophic natural events such as extreme weather events (recently more frequent and intense as a result of the ongoing climate changes), earthquakes, tsunamis or man-induced events such as terrorist attacks or accidents. Furthermore, due to increasing technological complexity of urban areas, along with increasing population density, cities are becoming more and more risk attractors. The resilience of cities against catastrophic events is a major challenge of today. It requires city transformation processes to be rethought, to mitigate the effects of extreme events on the vital functions of cities and communities. Redundancy and robustness of the components of the urban fabric are essential to restore the full efficiency of the city's vital functions after an extreme event has taken place. These items were addressed by an interdisciplinary and international selection of scientists during the 6th UN-World Urban Forum, that was held in Naples, Italy in September 2012. This volume represents in six chapters the views from sociologists, economists, and scientists working on natural risk and physical vulnerability on resilience and sustainability for future cities in relation to natural disasters.
650 0 _aGeography.
650 0 _aGeology.
650 0 _aRegional planning.
650 0 _aArchitecture.
650 0 _aSustainable development.
650 1 4 _aEarth Sciences.
650 2 4 _aNatural Hazards.
650 2 4 _aLandscape/Regional and Urban Planning.
650 2 4 _aEnvironmental Science and Engineering.
650 2 4 _aUrbanism.
650 2 4 _aSustainable Development.
650 2 4 _aGeophysics and Environmental Physics.
700 1 _aManfredi, Gaetano.
_eeditor.
700 1 _aAsprone, Domenico.
_eeditor.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
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776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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830 0 _aSpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences,
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04316-6
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