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Building safer cities : (Record no. 269615)

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control field UG-KaMUL
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0821354973
039 9# - LEVEL OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC CONTROL AND CODING DETAIL [OBSOLETE]
Level of rules in bibliographic description 200608051815
Level of effort used to assign nonsubject heading access points 909
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040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency UG-KaMUL
084 ## - OTHER CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number IBRD (08) 82/3
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Building safer cities :
Remainder of title the future of disaster risk /
Statement of responsibility, etc. edited b y Alcira Kreimer, Margaret Arnold, Anne Carlin.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Washington, D.C. :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. The World Bank,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. c2003.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxi, 299 p. :
Other physical details ill., maps ;
Dimensions 28 cm.
440 0# - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE
Title Disaster risk management series ;
Volume/sequential designation no. 3
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Part I. Diasters, vulnerability, and the global economy / Charlotte Benson and Edward Clay -- Natural hazard risk and privatization / Paul K. Freeman -- Natural disaster risk and cost-benefit analysis / Reinhar d Mechler -- Globalization and natural disasters: an integrative risk m anagement approach / Torben Juul Andersen -- Urban disasters and global ization / J.M. Albala-Bertrand -- Interdependent disaster risks: the ne ed for public-private partnerships / Howard Kunreuther.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Part II. Cities and climate change / Anthony G. Bigio -- The resilie nce of coastal megacities to weather-related hazards / Richard J.T. Kle in, Robert J. Nicholls, and Frank Thomalla -- Flood management and vuln erability of Dhaka City / Saleemul Huq and Mozaharul Alam -- Flooding i n the Pampean Region of Argentina: the Salado Basin / Hilda Herzer -- U rbanization and natural disasters in the Mediterranean: population grow th and climate change in the 21st century / Hans Gèunter Brauch -- Urba n land markets and disasters: floods in Argentina's cities / Nora Clich evsky.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Part III. Social vulnerability to disaster impacts. Disaster risk re duction in megacities: making the most of human and social capital / Be n Wisner -- Living with risk: toward effective disaster management trai ning in Africa / Prvoslav Marjanovic and Krisno Nimpuno -- Urban vulner ability to disasters in developing countries: managing risks / E.L. Qua rantelli -- Natural disasters and urban cultural heritage: a reassessme nt / June Taboroff.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Part IV. Protecting critical infrastructure from disaster impacts. A new structural approach for the study of domino effects between life s upport networks / Benoãit Robert et al. -- Mitigating the vulnerability of critical infrastructure in developing countries / Lamine Mili -- Da mage to and vulnerability of industrial facilities in the 1999 Kocaeli, Turkey, earthquake / Mustafa Erdik and Eser Durukal -- The behavior of retrofitted buildings during earthquakes: new technologies / Mikayel M elkumyan.
650 0# - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Emergency management
Geographic subdivision Developing countries
General subdivision Planning.
650 0# - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element City planning
Geographic subdivision Developing countries.
650 0# - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Disasters
Geographic subdivision Developing countries.
650 0# - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Floods
Geographic subdivision Developing countries.
650 0# - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Climatic changes
General subdivision Risk assessment
Geographic subdivision Developing countries.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Kreimer, Alcira.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Arnold, Margaret,
Dates associated with a name 1965-
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Carlin, Anne.
710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element The World Bank.
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type Books - Open Access
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Main Library - Africana Main Library - Africana 09/06/2025   001076234 09/06/2025 09/06/2025 Books - Open Access