Cities at risk : living with perils in the 21st century / Helene Joffe, Tiziana Rossetto, John Adams, editors.

With the major growth of the world's population over the past century, as well as rapid urbanisation, people increasingly live in crowded cities. This trend is often accompanied by proliferation of poorly built housing, uncontrolled use of land, occupation of unsafe environments and overstretch...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors:	Joffe, Helene, Rossetto, Tiziana, Adams, John
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2013.
Series:	Advances in natural and technological hazards research ; v. 33.
Subjects:	Cities and towns > Risk assessment. Emergency management. Disasters > Risk assessment.