Chapter 1 Introduction to urban risk reduction
Urban Risk Reduction: An Asian Perspective
ISBN: 978-1-84855-906-6, eISBN: 978-1-84855-907-3
Publication date: 18 December 2009
Abstract
Cities and urban areas are increasingly becoming the settlement of choice for a majority of humans.
Many of the global environmental problems that we are now facing have their precedence and causes in the cities and urban areas we live in.
Lessons in understanding urban risk are now emerging – urban hazards and risk are predominantly human-induced, and exacerbate natural events. Various economic, social, and economic aspects compound the risks that urban residents face.
Urban lifestyles and resource consumptions can be directly or indirectly attributed to the many environmental consequences that we are seeing – both within the city, as well as the entire hinterland or urban watershed that it is located in.
Citation
Srinivas, H., Shaw, R. and Sharma, A. (2009), "Chapter 1 Introduction to urban risk reduction", Shaw, R., Srinivas, H. and Sharma, A. (Ed.) Urban Risk Reduction: An Asian Perspective (Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management, Vol. 1), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 3-12. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-7262(2009)0000001005
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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