Urban Risk Management in China
Principles, Methods and Practices
- 1st Edition - January 23, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Jianping Sun
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 6 4 2 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 6 4 3 - 1
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Request a sales quoteUrban Risk Management in China: Principles, Methods and Practices discusses the management of urban risk, the practical application of risk prevention, and the practice of control in the industry. Urban risk management is an emerging and interdisciplinary research field, and this book meets the urgent need to identify, analyze, and summarize urban risks and management difficulties that are experienced worldwide, especially in metropolitan cities. With rapid and large-scale urbanization, China's urban management experience in facing a series of comprehensive challenges provides a helpful way forward for urban planners around the world.
This book clarifies the concept of urban risk, which includes urban land use, housing, infrastructure construction, economic and social development, and environmental protection, with an aim of analyzing the obstacles to urban risk management, forming a cognitive framework, organizing the practice of urban risk management, and finally forming a workable urban risk management system.
This book clarifies the concept of urban risk, which includes urban land use, housing, infrastructure construction, economic and social development, and environmental protection, with an aim of analyzing the obstacles to urban risk management, forming a cognitive framework, organizing the practice of urban risk management, and finally forming a workable urban risk management system.
- Systematically discusses urban risk prevention and control in terms of its main forces, mechanisms, systems, and capabilities and presents a multidimensional pyramidal management framework between society, market, and government
- Improves the typology of academic courses related to urban risk management and clarifies different branches of theoretical concepts and practical applications
- Provides a solid foundation for an understanding of how urban risks evolve from accidents or incidents and identifies characteristics and patterns in risk sources
- Proposes three mechanisms: co-governance, refined prevention and control, and multilayered guarantees as part of the full-lifecycle perspective in risk prevention, control, and management
Municipal government decision-makers, administrators, and related technicians in the field of prevention and control, especially providing supportive theories, technological decision-making for management of different industries and the relative personnel, which is helpful in training the inter-disciplinary talents for now and serving as a reference for risk management practical administrators. Academics interested in urban planning
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Prolegomenous foundation of urban risk management
- 1.1. Sociological basis of urban risk management
- 1.2. Basic urban risk management
- 1.3. Discipline of construction in urban risk management
- 1.4. Summary
- Chapter 2. The concept of urban risk
- 2.1. Urban risk—A continuous and unified conceptual system
- 2.2. Categories and characteristics of urban risk
- 2.3. Summary
- Chapter 3. Classification of urban risk
- 3.1. Classification of urban risk from event ends
- 3.2. Urban risk classification based on “human-city” system interaction
- 3.3. Urban risk classification based on urban life cycle
- 3.4. Summary
- Chapter 4. Urban risk management subjects and key mechanisms
- 4.1. Urban risk management subjects
- 4.2. Coordination mechanisms of urban risk prevention and control
- 4.3. Explorations for China's urban risk management practice in the context of multiple cogovernance
- 4.4. Joint meeting system—China's practice of urban risk management (I)
- 4.5. Community-level multiple cogovernance—China's practice of urban risk management (II)
- 4.6. Summary
- Chapter 5. Urban risk prevention-and-control system and capacity building
- 5.1. Urban risk situations and challenges in China
- 5.2. Full-life-cycle urban risk prevention-and-control system
- 5.3. Urban risk prevention-and-control capacity building in the context of digital transformation
- 5.4. Summary
- Chapter 6. Key processes and technologies of urban risk prevention and control
- 6.1. Guide for risk prevention and control
- 6.2. Urban risk identification and analysis
- 6.3. Urban risk assessment
- 6.4. Urban risk assessment
- 6.5. Urban risk warning
- 6.6. Urban risk and insurance
- 6.7. Practice-based approaches and methods for urban risk management
- 6.8. Summary
- Chapter 7. China's practice of building safe and resilient cities
- 7.1. Resilience and its connotation
- 7.2. Ideas for building safe and resilient cities
- 7.3. Building safe and resilient cities
- 7.4. Summary
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 23, 2024
- No. of pages (Paperback): 255
- No. of pages (eBook): 255
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443186424
- eBook ISBN: 9780443186431
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Jianping Sun
Jianping Sun, Professor and Doctoral supervisor, is Dean of Institute for Urban Risk Management (URMI) at Tongji University. He has extensive management and administrative experience in the fields of urban planning and construction, and the operations of public transit systems and facility operations. His recent research focuses on theoretical applications in urban risk management, systemic innovations, and various informatic system applications.
His major research accomplishments include: (1) serving as the principal project director for Approaches and Strategies on Improvement of the Comprehensive Emergency Management in the Metropolitans, funded by the National Social Science Fund; (2) participating in the Key High -precision Positioning Technology and Its Application in Active Traffic Safety and Maintenance and Construction Work Safety Risk Prevention and Control Technology in Highways and Urban Expressways, a project that earned him the first place in the Shanghai Science and technological Progress Award and the first place in the Science and Technological Progress Award by Shanghai Traffic Engineering Society respectively.
He is the Executive Editor in Chief for the Series in Urban Risk Management, a publication project sponsored by the National Key Publications Project and the National Publication Foundation. The series include such works as An Introduction to Urban Safety Prevention and Control and Risk Management in Construction Quality and Safety. He has also authored the edited volume, entitled the Operating Safety Development Report of Shanghai, a blue book that provides the first “physical check-up” for Shanghai’s urban safety management and has attracted wide attention among government agencies and policy makers.
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Professor and Doctoral supervisor, Dean, Institute for Urban Risk Management (URMI), Tongji UniversityRead Urban Risk Management in China on ScienceDirect