Save 50% on book bundles
Immediately download your ebook while waiting for your print delivery. No promo code is needed.
Back to School Savings: Save up to 30% on print books and eBooks. No promo code needed.
Back to School Savings: Save up to 30%
The Role of Infrastructure in Disaster Risk Reduction
Capacity Planning for Feasible Resilience and Risk Management
1st Edition - January 1, 2020
Author: Makarand Hastak
Paperback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 4 6 9 8 - 9
The Role of Infrastructure in Disaster Risk Reduction: Capacity Planning for Feasible Resilience and Risk Management offers a comprehensive disaster-planning framework for seven… Read more
Purchase Options
The Role of Infrastructure in Disaster Risk Reduction: Capacity Planning for Feasible Resilience and Risk Management offers a comprehensive disaster-planning framework for seven infrastructure layers: civil, civic, social, environmental, financial, educational and cyber infrastructure. This framework includes three steps: 1) disaster impact assessment; 2) infrastructure development strategy (i.e., preparation strategy); and 3) capacity building strategy (i.e., mitigation strategy). With this framework, decision-makers can identify vulnerable infrastructure and then make viable investment plans for reinforcing them by designing a well-balanced preparation and mitigation strategy that would build appropriate capacities for achieving the desired resilience.The book will be useful for all entities involved in dealing with the aftermath of natural disasters, including disaster professionals, first responders, city planners, architects and engineers, educators, students and researchers working on understanding the need for disaster risk reduction and developing innovative solutions for better decision-making.
- Describes the role of infrastructure in disaster risk reduction and management as well as capacity building
- Provides readers with the tools needed to evaluate the criticality, vulnerability and severity of impact, as well as the need for evaluating and building the necessary capacities for achieving desired resilience
- Illustrates the important role of disaster risk reduction through case studies
Disaster professionals, first responders, city planners, architects and engineers, educators, as well as students and researchers working on understanding the need for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and developing innovative solutions for better decision-making
Part-I: Fundamentals of Disaster Risk Reduction/ Disaster Risk Management1. Disasters and their Impact2. Role of infrastructure in disasters3. Interdependencies among Infrastructures
Part-II: Advances in Disaster Risk Reduction/ Disaster Risk Management4. Disaster Impact Analysis for Critical Infrastructures5. to 11. Each of the Seven Individual Infrastructure Layers12. Resilience and Capacity Needs13. Supply Chain and Business Continuity14. Role of insurance in DRR15. Tools for DRR/DRM
- No. of pages: 375
- Language: English
- Published: January 1, 2020
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128146989
MH
Makarand Hastak
Professor Hastak Makarand is the Head of Construction, Engineering and Management at Purdue University, IN, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Head of Construction, Engineering and Management, Purdue University, IN, USA