Resilience and Sustainability in Relation to Natural Disasters: A Challenge for Future Cities

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1. Economic and Its Contribution to the Sustainability of (Adam Rose) 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Vulnerability 1.3. and Sustainability 1.4. Defining economic 1.5. Quantification of Economic 1.6. Economic Options 1.7. The Effectiveness and cost of Economic 1.8. Conclusion 2. Modeling Networks and Community 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 - The CLUVA project (Gertrud Jorgensen, 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 3.7. Perspectives and conclusions - Adaptation at Level 4. 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 City 4.2. Resilient Governments / Institutions: Who Takes the Vulnerability? 4.3. Resilient People: Do They Mitigate City's Vulnerability? 4.4. in Mega Cities: Selecting Among Risk Mitigation Targets 4.5. Conclusions: Myths and Dilemmas on the City 4.6. Recommendations 5. Linking Sustainability and of Future (D. Asprone, A. Prota and G. Manfredi) 5.1. Introduction 5.2. Different Approaches to 5.3. Sustainability of Urban Systems 5.4. Linking and Sustainability 5.5. Conclusions 5.6. Recommendations 6. Natural Hazards Impacting on Future (Paolo Gasparini, Angela Di Ruocco and Raffaella Russo) 6.1. The Urban Development Scenario 6.2. Natural Hazards Impacting on Future 6.3. A Better Way to Estimate Damages 6.4. How to Manage Urban Catastrophic Events 6.5. The Future 7. and sustainability in Relation to Disasters: A Challenge for Future Cities - Common Vision and Recommendations (Gaetano Manfredi, Adam Rose, Kalliopi Sapountzaki, Gertrud Jorgensen, Edith Callaghan, Graham Tobin, Paolo Gasparini & Domenico Asprone)