1st Edition
by Lee Bosher (Author), Ksenia Chmutina (Author)
Disaster Risk Reduction for the Built Environment provides
a multi-facetted introduction to how a wide range of risk reduction
options can be mainstreamed into formal and informal construction
decision making processes, so that Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) can
become part of the ‘developmental DNA’. The contents highlight the
positive roles that practitioners such as civil and structural
engineers, urban planners and designers, and architects (to name just a
few) can undertake to ensure that disaster risk is addressed when
(re)developing the built environment. The book does not set out
prescriptive (‘context blind’) solutions to complex problems because
such solutions can invariably generate new problems. Instead it raises
awareness, and in doing so, inspires a broad range of people to consider
DRR in their work or everyday practices.
This highly-illustrated
text book provides a broad range of examples, case studies and thinking
points that can help the reader to consider how DRR approaches might be
adapted for differing contexts.
