Building Safer Cities : The Future of Disaster Risk.

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Kreimer, Alcira.

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Kreimer, Alcira.

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1 online resource (324 pages)

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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Editors' Note -- Part I Globalization and the Economic Impacts of Disasters -- 1. Disasters, Vulnerability, and the Global Economy -- 2. Natural Hazard Risk and Privatization -- 3. Natural Disaster Risk and Cost-Benefit Analysis -- 4. Globalization and Natural Disasters: An Integrative Risk Management Approach -- 5. Urban Disasters and Globalization -- 6. Interdependent Disaster Risks: The Need for Public-Private Partnerships.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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Climatic changes -- Risk assessment -- Developing countries.

Disaster relief -- Developing countries -- Planning.

Electronic books. -- local.

Emergency management -- Developing countries -- Planning.

Floods -- Developing countries.

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