TY - CHAP
T1 - Introduction
AU - Haigh, Richard
AU - Amaratunga, Dilanthi
PY - 2011/7/4
Y1 - 2011/7/4
KW - Centre for research on the epidemiology of disasters (CRED) - and the international disasters database (EM-DAT)
KW - Disaster reconstruction - protecting people and the environment, less vulnerability in future
KW - Earthquake risk, well-defined seismic zones - and developing countries
KW - Global challenge, scale and distribution of disasters - a global problem
KW - Links, disasters and climate change - increasingly recognised
KW - Origins and causes of disasters - affecting communities across the world
KW - Post-disaster reconstruction - communities, in a perpetual cycle of disasters
KW - Reconstruction of 'built environment' - bartuska (2007), four factors being inter-related
KW - Resilient built environment - and disasters, as a window of opportunity
KW - World's exposure to hazards, natural and man-made - predictably increasing
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84866674792
U2 - 10.1002/9781444344943.ch1
DO - 10.1002/9781444344943.ch1
M3 - Foreword/postscript
AN - SCOPUS:84866674792
SN - 9781444333565
SP - 1
EP - 12
BT - Post-Disaster Reconstruction of the Built Environment
A2 - Amaratunga, Dilanthi
A2 - Haigh, Richard
PB - Wiley Blackwell
ER -