Cities at Risk : Living with Perils in the 21st Century - Joffe, Helene; Rossetto, Tiziana; Adams, John.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Preface -- Introduction - Living with Perils in the 21st Century -- Risk Society and Representations of Risks: Earthquakes and Beyond -- Risk Compensation in Cities at Risk -- Responding to Flood Risk in the UK -- A Historical Overview of Social Representation of Earthquake Risk in Japan: Fatalism, Social Reform, Scientific Control and Collaborative Risk Management -- Facilitating Community Participation in Disaster Risk Management: Risk Perception and Preparedness Behaviours in Turkey -- North American Cities at Risk: Household Responses to Environmental Hazards -- Community Understanding of, and Preparedness for, Earthquake and Tsunami Risk in Wellington, New Zealand -- Perceptions of Climate Variability and Coping Strategies in Informal Settlements in Dhaka, Bangladesh -- Risk Perception, Public Education and Disaster Risk Management -- Index.
Keywords: Natural disasters; Earth sciences; Regional planning; Urban planning; Geotechnical engineering; Social sciences; Natural Hazards; Earth Sciences, general; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Social Sciences, general