Urban 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. 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 governmentImproves the typology of academic courses related to urban risk management and clarifies different branches of theoretical concepts and practical applicationsProvides a solid foundation for an understanding of how urban risks evolve from accidents or incidents and identifies characteristics and patterns in risk sourcesProposes three mechanisms: co-governance, refined prevention and control, and multilayered guarantees as part of the full-lifecycle perspective in risk prevention, control, and management INDICE: 1. Introduction The Subject Basis of Urban Risk Management 2. The Concept of Urban Risk 3. The Classification of Urban Risk 4. Relative Laws And Regulations on Urban Risk Management 5. The Principal Part and Key Mechanism of Urban Risk Management 6. Urban Risk Prevention and Control System, and Ability Construction 7. Key Flow and Technology in Urban Risk Prevention and Control 8. Chinas Practice on the Construction of Safe and Tenacity City
- ISBN: 978-0-443-18642-4
- Editorial: Elsevier
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 255
- Fecha Publicación: 24/01/2024
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés