The Routledge Handbook of Urban Disaster Resilience emphasizes the intersection of urban planning and hazard mitigation as critical for community resilience, considering the interaction of social, environmental, and physical systems with disasters. The Handbook introduces and discusses the phases of disaster - mitigation, preparedness/response, and recovery - as well as each of the federal, state, and local players that address these phases from a planning and policy perspective.

Part I provides an overview of hazard vulnerability that begins with an explanation of what it means to be vulnerable to hazards, especially for socially vulnerable population segments. Part II discusses the politics of hazard mitigation; the failures of smart growth placed in hazardous areas; the wide range of land development policies and their associated risk; the connection between hazards and climate adaptation; and the role of structural and non-structural mitigation in planning for disasters. Part III covers emergency preparedness and response planning, the unmet needs people experience and community service planning; evacuation planning; and increasing community capacity and emergency response in developing countries. Part IV addresses recovery from and adaption to disasters, with topics such as the National Disaster Recovery Framework, long-term housing recovery; population displacement; business recovery; and designs in disasters. Finally, Part V demonstrates how disaster research is interpreted in practice - how to incorporate mitigation into the comprehensive planning process; how states respond to recovery; how cities undertake recovery planning; and how to effectively engage the whole community in disaster planning.

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Disaster Resilience offers the most authoritative and comprehensive coverage of cutting-edge research at the intersection of urban planning and disasters from a U.S. perspective. This book serves as an invaluable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students, future professionals, and practitioners interested in urban planning, sustainability, development response planning, emergency planning, recovery planning, hazard mitigation planning, land use planning, housing and community development as well as urban sociology, sociology of the community, public administration, homeland security, climate change, and related fields.

About the Author

Michael K. Lindell is an Emeritus Professor, Texas A&M University, College Station, and an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, Boise State University, and Oregon State University. His research interests include organizational emergency preparedness and response, training/exercises, warning systems, evacuation modeling, household disaster preparedness, risk communication, risk perception, household disaster response, disaster impact models, cognitive processing of visual displays, and survey research methods.

Reviews

"This handbook is an extraordinary contribution to the field of hazard and disaster planning. Michael Lindell, one of the most esteemed hazard scholars of the past fifty years, has assembled an incredible group of planning and policy scholars. Their discussions focus upon hazard and disaster planning for mitigation, preparedness/response, and recovery within the context of community and societal resilience. This sourcebook is a blueprint for linking research perspectives and findings into policy and practice." - Dr. Dennis Wenger, Program Director, retired, Infrastructure Management and Extreme Events, National Science Foundation, USA

"This handbook is a solid primer for planners who must make their communities safer and more resilient in the face of the rising tide of disasters in the 21st Century. If this is your job, this book is a valuable resource." - James C. Schwab, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Iowa, Chair-Elect, APA Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Recovery Planning Division, USA

Book Information
ISBN 9781032401287
Author Michael Lindell
Format Paperback
Page Count 440
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 453g