Chapter 1: Introduction to urban risk reduction

Hari Srinivas; Rajib Shaw; Anshu Sharma

doi:10.1108/S2040-7262(2009)0000001005

Chapter 1: Introduction to urban risk reduction

Hari Srinivas, Rajib Shaw, Anshu Sharma

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Abstract

Cities and urban areas are increasingly becoming the settlement of choice for a majority of humans. Many of the global environmental problems that we are now facing have their precedence and causes in the cities and urban areas we live in. Lessons in understanding urban risk are now emerging - urban hazards and risk are predominantly human-induced, and exacerbate natural events. Various economic, social, and economic aspects compound the risks that urban residents face. Urban lifestyles and resource consumptions can be directly or indirectly attributed to the many environmental consequences that we are seeing - both within the city, as well as the entire hinterland or urban watershed that it is located in.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management
Editors	Liping Cai, Hari Srinivas, Anshu Sharma
Pages	3-12
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-7262(2009)0000001005
Publication status	Published - 2009 Dec 1
Externally published	Yes

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Name	Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management
Volume	1
ISSN (Print)	2040-7262
ISSN (Electronic)	2040-7270

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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