Resilience and Sustainability in Relation to Natural Disasters: A Challenge for Future Cities (Paperback, 2014)

1. Economic Resilience and Its Contribution to the Sustainability of Cities (Adam Rose) 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Vulnerability 1.3. Resilience and Sustainability 1.4. Defining economic Resilience 1.5. Quantification of Economic Resilience 1.6. Economic Resilience Options 1.7. The Effectiveness and cost of Economic Resilience 1.8. Conclusion 2. Modeling Social Networks and Community Resilience in Chronic Disasters: Case Studies from volcanic areas in Ecuador and Mexico (Graham A. Tobin, Linda M. Whiteford, Arthur D. Murphy, Eric C. Jones and Christopher McCarty) 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Study Sites 2.3. Methods 2.4. Results 2.5. Conclusions 2.6. Acknowledgements 3. Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Planning in African Cities - The CLUVA project (Gertrud Jørgensen, Lise Byskov Herslund, Dorthe Hedensted Lund, Abraham Workneh, Wilbard Kombe, Souleymane Gueye) 3.1 Introduction 3.2. The African Urban Context and the CLUVA Project 3.3. Climate Change Adaptation and Urban Planning 3.4. Planning Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation 3.5. Adaptation Measures - Findings from CLUVA Cities 3.7. Perspectives and conclusions - Adaptation at City Level 4. "Resilience for All" and "Collective Resilience": Are These Planning Objectives Consistent with One Another?( Kalliopi Sapountzaki) 4.1. Introduction: Clarifying the Terms "Resilience", "Social Resilience" and "Resilient City" 4.2. Resilient Governments / Institutions: Who Takes the Vulnerability? 4.3. Resilient People: Do They Mitigate City's Vulnerability? 4.4. Resilience in Mega Cities: Selecting Among Risk Mitigation Targets 4.5. Conclusions: Myths and Dilemmas on the "Resilient City" 4.6. Recommendations 5. Linking Sustainability and Resilience of Future Cities (D. Asprone, A. Prota and G. Manfredi) 5.1. Introduction 5.2. Different Approaches to City Resilience 5.3. Sustainability of Urban Systems 5.4. Linking Resilience and Sustainability 5.5. Conclusions 5.6. Recommendations 6. Natural Hazards Impacting on Future Cities (Paolo Gasparini, Angela Di Ruocco and Raffaella Russo) 6.1. The Urban Development Scenario 6.2. Natural Hazards Impacting on Future Cities 6.3. A Better Way to Estimate Damages 6.4. How to Manage Urban Catastrophic Events 6.5. The Future 7. "Resilience and sustainability in Relation to Disasters: A Challenge for Future Cities" - Common Vision and Recommendations (Gaetano Manfredi, Adam Rose, Kalliopi Sapountzaki, Gertrud Jørgensen, Edith Callaghan, Graham Tobin, Paolo Gasparini& Domenico Asprone)