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URBAN EARTHQUAKE RISK REDUCTION FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY : The Way Forward for the Middle Income and the Low Income Countries
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Pantelić, Jelena |
| Copyright Year | 2002 |
| Abstract | Recovery and reconstruction experiences following major earthquakes in developing countries have highlighted the need for re-examining strategic approaches to preventing earthquake disasters happening in the densely built urban environment. Given the evidence that poor residents of low income countries are disproportionately more seriously affected by earthquakes, other natural disasters and extreme events than their more affluent neighbors, it is proposed that the ad hoc approach to urban earthquake prevention give way to a more concerted, systematic and sustainable seismic prevention in the urban areas of the poor (low income) and middle income countries. As disaster vulnerability is closely related to development, this paper proposes strategies for earthquake prevention in the cities of these two categories of developing countries, as urban susceptibility to earthquakes may jeopardize in the long term, and sometimes even reverse, the results of the development process. At the onset of the new millennium and the global quest for poverty reduction, two strategic urban earthquake prevention approaches, deeply linked to the development process, are proposed for the middle and low income developing countries, respectively. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.iitk.ac.in/nicee/wcee/article/13_1824.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
