Title page -- Preface -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Hazard Mitigation, Planning, and Disaster Resiliency: Challenges and Strategic Choices for the 21st Century -- Command or Cooperate? Rethinking Traditional Central Governments' Hazard Mitigation Policies -- Rethinking Risk Management Policies: From ``Participation'' to Processes of Dialogue, Debate, and Negotiation -- Patterns of Risk: Spatial Planning as a Strategy for the Mitigation of Risk from Natural Hazards -- On Exposure to Natural Hazards: Revisiting a Neglected Primal Action -- Precaution and Science-Based Environmental Risk Management: Complementary not Contradictory -- Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Urban Areas. A Role for Urban Planning -- Vulnerable to Flooding? Nature Development and `Room for the River': A Governance Perspective -- Social Impact Assessment for Environmental Disaster Management -- Dynamics, Predictability and Risk Assessment of Natural Hazards -- Principles of Emergency Planning: Standardisation, Integration and Sustainability -- The Challenges of Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery -- Urban Water Governance as Part of a Strategy for Risk Mitigation, What Is Different in Third World Cities? -- Achievements and Challenges of Integrating Risk Management into European Spatial Development Initiatives -- French Multiple Risk and Disaster Integral Management System within the European Union -- A Framework for Using GIS and Stakeholder Input to Assess Vulnerability to Coastal Hazards: A Case Study from Sarasota County, Florida -- Use of Emerging InSAR and LiDAR Remote Sensing Technologies to Anticipate and Monitor Critical Natural Hazards -- Subject Index -- Author Index.