This book presents a framework, the Urban Risk Assessment, for assessing disaster and climate risk in cities which is intended to assist in decision-making, urban planning, and designing risk management programs. The approach seeks to strengthen coherence and consensus within and across cities...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: RISKS FROM NATURE -- 1 Fire Is Everybody's Problem -- 2 The Uncertainties of Disease -- 3 Doing Something about the Weather -- 4 Animal Risk for a Modern Age -- PART II: INDUSTRIALIZING RISK -- 5 Railroads, or Why Risk in a System...