Constructing Risk: Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment

Stephen O. Bender

Published by Berghahn Books 2021

Constructing Risk

Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment

Stephen O. Bender

Volume 4 in the series Catastrophes in Context

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800731639

Overview
Contents

About this book

Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies approach economic development while trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers. It examines the vulnerability of economic and social infrastructure to natural hazard events, looks at policies which imperil infrastructure, and proposes new development approaches to be undertaken by sovereign states, international development banks, NGOs, and bilateral aid agencies.

Author / Editor information

Stephen O. Bender is an architect and retired staff member of the Department of Sustainable Development of the Organization of American States in Washington D.C. He has acted as a consultant to various international development entities working in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia.

Reviews

“…a careful reading is rewarded by lessons learned and to be learned in the emerging field of disaster risk management. Helpful anecdotes are inserted throughout, balancing critical assessments.” • Recovery Diva

“The expertise and experience of the author stands out throughout this book, particularly in its focus on the built environment and disaster… Hopefully, the book will encourage new thinking among all those whose first pivot in planning and development, whether before or after a sudden-onset disaster, is to build more, bigger, and faster.” • Jane Henrici, Consulting Senior Researcher and Gender Advisor, World Bank-Haiti and Lecturer, George Washington University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Allan Lavell Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Chronology: Stakeholder Statements on Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment Publicly Available Download PDF	xviii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I WE GOT HERE FOR A REASON
CHAPTER 1 Linkage between Disaster and Development Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
CHAPTER 2 Deliberate Actions and Debilitating Outcomes—Gaps Appear Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
CHAPTER 3 What Development Has Brought and Disaster Wrought Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
CHAPTER 4 Understanding Where the Disaster-Development Link Leads Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
CHAPTER 5 Disaster-Development Linkage through the Lens of Disaster Recovery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
CHAPTER 6 Continuity in the Name of Constituents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Part II ONCE AND FUTURE DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
CHAPTER 7 Redefining Disaster Risk Reduction in Development of the Built Environment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
CHAPTER 8 Making Risk Information Visible Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
CHAPTER 9 Risk within Present and Emerging Economic Development Forces Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Part III DISASTER RISK REDUCTION WILL BE WHAT IT IS CONCEIVED TO BE
CHAPTER 10 Sustaining Nature of Disaster-Development Linkage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
CHAPTER 11 Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Development Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Part IV THEY WHO CALL THE TUNE
CHAPTER 12 Built Environment Vulnerability and Development Processes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
CHAPTER 13 Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, Regulation, and Enforcement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
CHAPTER 14 Policy Guidance on Disaster Risk Reduction Taken to Development Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
CHAPTER 15 What Has Been Found about the Future: Changes That Change Positions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 252

eBook

Published: August 13, 2021
ISBN: 9781800731639