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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    September 2025
    September 2025
    ISBN:
    9781009633574
    9781009633550
    9781009633543
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009633574
    Dimensions:
    (244 x 170 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.548kg, 212 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (244 x 170 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.38kg, 212 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Earth and Environmental Sciences, Geography, Planning and Urban Geography, Environmental Policy, Economics and Law
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    Subjects:
    Earth and Environmental Sciences, Geography, Planning and Urban Geography, Environmental Policy, Economics and Law
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    With its focus on the city rather than the disaster event, this book situates natural disasters in the context of urban growth and change. It offers an original, interdisciplinary perspective by connecting the technical and socioeconomic dimensions of disaster risk and highlighting the commonalities of hazards such as river flooding, coastal flooding, and earthquakes. The book begins by proposing a novel Urban Risk Dynamics framework that emphasizes the roles of economy, landscape, and technology in influencing hazard, exposure, and vulnerability. This framework is then used to support the examination of six contrasting cities from around the world, offering generalized insights that apply to a wide range of urban risk contexts. The book will be of significant interest to students and researchers working in urban planning, civil engineering, Earth sciences, and environmental science, and to policy makers and practitioners concerned with reducing future disaster risk in cities.

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