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Resilience and Urban Disasters
Surviving Cities
9781788970099 Edward Elgar Publishing
This book addresses unexpected disasters and shocks in cities and urban systems by providing quantitative and qualitative tools for impact analysis and disaster management. Including environmental catastrophes, political turbulence and economic shocks, Resilience and Urban Disasters explores a large range of tumultuous events and key case studies to thoroughly cover these core areas. In particular, the socio-economic impacts on urban systems that are subject to disasters are explored.
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This book addresses unexpected disasters and shocks in cities and urban systems by providing quantitative and qualitative tools for impact analysis and disaster management. Including environmental catastrophes, political turbulence and economic shocks, Resilience and Urban Disasters explores a large range of tumultuous events and key case studies to thoroughly cover these core areas.
Chapters explore novel contributions on urban evolution and adjustment patterns based on studies from across the globe. Both causal mechanisms and policy responses to the high social costs of urban disasters are addressed. In particular, the book explores the socio-economic impacts on urban systems that are subject to disasters, including migration due to large earthquakes in Japan, the economic impact of terrorist attacks in Istanbul and labour market changes as a result of natural disasters in Italy.
Urban planning and urban economics scholars will greatly benefit from the multidisciplinary analyses of a variety of case studies in the book. City planners and urban administrators will also find the exploration of potential paths of resilience for cities to be an invaluable tool for future planning.
Chapters explore novel contributions on urban evolution and adjustment patterns based on studies from across the globe. Both causal mechanisms and policy responses to the high social costs of urban disasters are addressed. In particular, the book explores the socio-economic impacts on urban systems that are subject to disasters, including migration due to large earthquakes in Japan, the economic impact of terrorist attacks in Istanbul and labour market changes as a result of natural disasters in Italy.
Urban planning and urban economics scholars will greatly benefit from the multidisciplinary analyses of a variety of case studies in the book. City planners and urban administrators will also find the exploration of potential paths of resilience for cities to be an invaluable tool for future planning.
Critical Acclaim
‘Resilience and Urban Disasters: Surviving Cities is a resource endeavouring to contribute towards effectively addressing the need for comprehensive analysis of disaster impacts and how cities recover from disasters. The book centres on the significance of systemic perturbances in cities or urban agglomerations through presenting quantitative and qualitative tools for analysis of the urban recovery process following a shock. In this way, it also addresses the often-neglected effects from a shock rather than effects arising from gradual changes. Through its methodological and policy underpinnings, the volume contributes immensely to our understanding about how cities survive and recover from catastrophes.. . . The strength of Resilience and Urban Disasters, lies in the comprehensiveness of the methodological approaches used in individual chapters. Resilience and Urban Disasters is a valuable resource for readers interested in economic and policy-based themes of urban disasters and resilience. It ably captures methodological approaches and impact analysis of urban disasters, heavily using case studies from European and Asian countries, and another covering the global context.’
– Urban Studies
‘This book evidences an era where cities and disasters become larger and resilience becomes more difficult to manage.’
– Roger Stough, George Mason University, US
– Urban Studies
‘This book evidences an era where cities and disasters become larger and resilience becomes more difficult to manage.’
– Roger Stough, George Mason University, US
Contributors
Contributors: K. Borsekova, T.İ. Çekiç, M. Dobrík, K. Fabián, R. Fabling, D. Felsenstein, R. Goncharov, A. Grimes, A.Y. Grinberger, Y. Ishikawa, M. Morisugi, K. Nakajima, P. Nijkamp, M.D. Özügül, F. Pagliacci, M. Russo, L. Rýsová, N. Sakamoto, E. Seçkin, M. Taheri Tafti, L. Timar, N. Zamyatina
Contents
Contents:
Part I Methodology and disaster impact analysis
1. Blessing in Disguise – Long-Run Benefits of Urban Disasters
Kamila Borsekova and Peter Nijkamp
2. Natural selection: Firm performance following a catastrophic earthquake
Richard Fabling, Arthur Grimes and Levente Timar
3. What Factors Determine Economic Strength in the Restoration Process from Extreme Disasters?
Masafumi Morisugi, Kazunori Nakajima and Naoki Sakamoto
4. Population Change and Economic Impacts on the Affected Region: The Case of Massive Earthquakes in Japan
Yoshifumi Ishikawa
Part II Case studies on resilience
5. An AHP Based Methodology Towards Resilient Tourism Strategies: The Istanbul Case
Ebru Seçkin
6. Resilience of Urban Systems in the Context of Urban Transformation: Lessons from Beykoz-İstanbul
Tuba Inal Çekiç and Mehmet Doruk Özügül
7. Arctic urbanization: resilience in a condition of permanent instability. The case of Russian Arctic cities
Nadezda Zamyatina and Ruslan Goncharov
Part III Policy prevention and recovery analysis – simulations and scenario building
8. Urban Resilience and the politics of scale
Mojgan Taheri Tafti
9. Multi-hazard, exposure and vulnerability in Italian municipalities
Francesco Pagliacci and Margherita Russo
10. Urban Disasters Crisis Management Scenario Design and Crisis Management Simulation
Karol Fabián, Lucia Rýsová and Michal Dobrík
11. Emerging Urban Dynamics and Labor Market Change: An Agent-Based Simulation of Recovery from a Disaster
A. Yair Grinberger and Daniel Felsenstein
Index
Part I Methodology and disaster impact analysis
1. Blessing in Disguise – Long-Run Benefits of Urban Disasters
Kamila Borsekova and Peter Nijkamp
2. Natural selection: Firm performance following a catastrophic earthquake
Richard Fabling, Arthur Grimes and Levente Timar
3. What Factors Determine Economic Strength in the Restoration Process from Extreme Disasters?
Masafumi Morisugi, Kazunori Nakajima and Naoki Sakamoto
4. Population Change and Economic Impacts on the Affected Region: The Case of Massive Earthquakes in Japan
Yoshifumi Ishikawa
Part II Case studies on resilience
5. An AHP Based Methodology Towards Resilient Tourism Strategies: The Istanbul Case
Ebru Seçkin
6. Resilience of Urban Systems in the Context of Urban Transformation: Lessons from Beykoz-İstanbul
Tuba Inal Çekiç and Mehmet Doruk Özügül
7. Arctic urbanization: resilience in a condition of permanent instability. The case of Russian Arctic cities
Nadezda Zamyatina and Ruslan Goncharov
Part III Policy prevention and recovery analysis – simulations and scenario building
8. Urban Resilience and the politics of scale
Mojgan Taheri Tafti
9. Multi-hazard, exposure and vulnerability in Italian municipalities
Francesco Pagliacci and Margherita Russo
10. Urban Disasters Crisis Management Scenario Design and Crisis Management Simulation
Karol Fabián, Lucia Rýsová and Michal Dobrík
11. Emerging Urban Dynamics and Labor Market Change: An Agent-Based Simulation of Recovery from a Disaster
A. Yair Grinberger and Daniel Felsenstein
Index
