Building Safer Communities. Risk Governance, Spatial Planning and Responses to Natural Hazards

Building Safer Communities. Risk Governance, Spatial Planning and Responses to Natural Hazards
Author Urbano Fra Paleo (editor)
Country Netherlands
Language English
Series Human and Societal Dynamics
Subject Natural hazards, Risk management
Genre Essay
Publisher IOS Press
Publication date
2009
Pages 278 pages
ISBN 978-1-60750-046-9
OCLC 441170952
LC Class 2009932645

Building Safer Communities. Risk Governance, Spatial Planning and Responses to Natural Hazards is a 2009 book edited by Urbano Fra Paleo, published by IOS Press.

This textbook examines the central principles of enhanced risk governance, whose implementation might help to mitigate the increasing losses caused by natural hazards. It promotes the adoption of proactive, preventive approaches in public policies, particularly through land use planning, by influencing on the occupation of hazard-prone areas. It serves both as a comprehensive introduction to the formulation and implementation at the strategic level of policies that address risk, and as an advancement in the integration of current practices, including emergency management, environmental management, community development and spatial planning. The authors study and construe solutions that review integrated strategies of the various levels of government considering:

Urbano Fra Paleo is a geographer, and an Associate Professor of Human Geography at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

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  1. Building Safer Communities. Risk Governance, Spatial Planning and Responses to Natural Hazards
  2. Building Safer Communities. Risk Governance, Spatial Planning and Responses to Natural Hazards
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