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    Constructing Risk: Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment

    By Stephen O. Bender

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    Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies approach economic development while trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers. It examines the vulnerability of economic and social infrastructure to natural hazard events, looks at policies which imperil infrastructure, and proposes new development approaches to be undertaken by sovereign states, international development banks, NGOs, and bilateral aid agencies.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBerghahn Books
    Release dateAug 13, 2021
    ISBN9781800731639
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    Constructing Risk: Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment
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    Stephen O. Bender

    Stephen O. Bender is an architect and retired staff member of the Department of Sustainable Development of the Organization of American States in Washington D.C. He has acted as a consultant to various international development entities working in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia.

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