Building safer cities [electronic resource] : the future of disaster risk / edited by Alcira Kreimer, Margaret Arnold, Anne Carlin

Title	Building safer cities [electronic resource] : the future of disaster risk / edited by Alcira Kreimer, Margaret Arnold, Anne Carlin
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

CONTENT

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

Emergency management -- Developing countries -- Planning Disaster relief -- Developing countries -- Planning Floods -- Developing countries Climatic changes Risk assessment -- Developing countries Electronic books.