Constructing Risk

Stephen O. Bender is an architect and retired staff member of the Department of Sustainable Development of the Organization of American States in Washington D.C. He has acted as a consultant to various international development entities working in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia.

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviatons

Timelines



Introduction



Part I: We Got Here For a Reason



Chapter 1. Linkage between Disaster and Development

Chapter 2. Deliberate Actions and Debilitating Outcomes—Gaps Appear

Chapter 3. What Development Has Brought and Disaster Wrought

Chapter 4. Understanding Where the Disaster-Development Link Leads

Chapter 5. Disaster-Development Linkage through the Lens of Disaster Recovery

Chapter 6. Continuity in the Name of Constituents



Part II: Once and Future Disaster Risk Reduction



Chapter 7. Redefining DRR in Development of the Built Environment

Chapter 8. Making Risk Information Visible

Chapter 9. Risk within Present and Emerging Economic Development Forces



Part III: DRR Will Be What It Is Conceived to Be



Chapter 10. Sustaining Nature of Disaster-Development Linkage

Chapter 11. Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Development



Part IV: They Who Call the Tune



Chapter 12. Built Environment Vulnerability and Development Processes

Chapter 13. Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, Regulation and Enforcement

Chapter 14. Policy Guidance on DRR Taken to Development

Chapter 15. What Has Been Found about the Future: Changes that Change Positions



Conclusion



References

Index