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Natural disasters are increasingly affecting the world, taking lives unexpectedly, and causing many other injured and homeless people. They disrupt local, national and even global economies, with the capacity to change the direction of development. Statistics indicate a rising trend in the number of disasters and its impacts—affected population and monetary damage—especially within the last two decades.
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In this book, the term natural is used to represent the type of hazard that inflicts a disaster; it does not imply that disasters occur naturally. These terms will be discussed in detail in the second chapter.
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This is suggested to be related to “greater exposure, more reporting, or a combination of both” (WB 2010: 26–27).
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The most commonly cited definition of sustainable development is, “development which meets the needs of the present without comprising the ability of future generations to meet their needs” (WCED 1987: 43). This book uses the term as the integrity of an equitable and long-term economic, social, and physical development that is in accordance with the environment.
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The International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP 1992) defined planning, in its International Manual of Planning Practice, as a “continuous process of thought, anticipating and preparing for foreseeable future.” In order to manage such change in spatial terms, urban planning “makes arrangements for future demands on the use of public and private land,” and seeks a balance between all interests “to resolve conflicting demands on space” (ISOCARP 2005: 50).
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The term urban system is used as identified by the United Nations (UN) guidelines on sustainable human settlements, as “both the largest unit capable of initially addressing the magnitude of urban, social, economic, political and environmental imbalances and the smallest scale at which problems can be meaningfully resolved in an integrated, holistic and sustainable manner” (UN 1996: 47–48).
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Gencer, E.A. (2013). Introduction. In: The Interplay between Urban Development, Vulnerability, and Risk Management. SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace(), vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29470-9_1
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