Title | Building safer cities [electronic resource] : the future of disaster risk / edited by Alcira Kreimer, Margaret Arnold, Anne Carlin |
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Imprint | Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2003 |
Connect to | http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=100742 |
Descript | xxi, 299 p. : ill., maps |
Part I. Diasters, vulnerability, and the global economy / Charlotte Benson and Edward Clay -- Natural hazard risk and privatization / Paul K. Freeman -- Natural disaster risk and cost-benefit analysis / Reinhard Mechler -- Globalization and natural disasters: an integrative risk management approach / Torben Juul Andersen -- Urban disasters and globalization / J.M. Albala-Bertrand -- Interdependent disaster risks: the need for public-private partnerships / Howard Kunreuther