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Hazards and the Built Environment

Attaining Built-in Resilience

Edited by Lee Bosher

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About the Book

Since the built environment and urban infrastructure provide the core framework for most human activity, it is crucial to develop them with an effective measure of resilience so they can withstand, and adapt to, the threats of natural and human-induced hazards. This book sets out to explore the challenges facing the built environment and examines the strategies that must be taken if built-in resilience is to be realised in the future and built assets safeguarded.

The contributors portray a resilient built environment as providing the essential groundwork upon which the technical, organisational, social and economic frameworks so necessary for societal resilience can be founded. The range of issues covered within this book not only demonstrate the trans-disciplinary nature of the subject but illustrate that non-structural as well as structural adaptations need to be considered to reduce the threat, and impact, of disasters and that lessons can be learnt from a range of disciplines and socio-cultural contexts. Broad conclusions are drawn and seven guiding principles are provided in relation to the ways in which construction and developmental practitioners might adapt their modus operandi to better address a range of hazards.

This book is essential reading for a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate students, managers and practitioners involved with the way buildings and infrastructure are planned, designed, built, managed and operated.

Lee Bosher is a Research Fellow in the Department of Civil and Building Engineering at Loughborough University, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a Member of the Institute of Civil Defence and Disaster Studies.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: The need for built-in resilience Chapter 2 – Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management Chapter 3 - Construction in developing nations: towards increased resilience to disasters Chapter 4 - More to lose: the case for prevention, loans for strengthening, and one day ‘safe housing’ insurance – the case of Central Vietnam Chapter 5 - Structural adaptation in India: Learning lessons from tradition Chapter 6 - Developments in seismic design and retrofit of structures: Modern technology built on ‘ancient wisdom’ Chapter 7 - Residential properties in England and Wales: An evaluation of repair strategies towards attaining flood resilience Chapter 8 - Public attitudes to ‘community based’ small scale flood risk reduction measures in England: A case study in the Lower Thames catchment Chapter 9 - Facing the future by designing in resilience - an architectural perspective Chapter 10 - Community-based construction for disaster risk reduction Chapter 11 - Informal settlements and natural hazard vulnerability in rapid growth cities Chapter 12 - The worm in the bud: Corruption, construction and catastrophe Chapter 13 - Building resilience by focusing on legal and contractual frameworks for disaster reconstruction Chapter 14 - The Implications of the Civil Contingencies Act (CCA) 2004 for engineers in the UK Chapter 15 - Security planning in the resilient city: Stimulating integrated emergency planning and management Chapter 16 - ‘Planning ahead’: adapting settlements before disasters strike Chapter 17 - Afterword: Integrating resilience into construction practice

About the Author(s)

Lee Bosher is a research fellow in the Department of Civil and Building Engineering at Loughborough University, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a Member of the Institute of Civil Defence and Disaster Studies.