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.

“…a careful reading is rewarded by lessons learned and to be learned in the emerging field of disaster risk management. Helpful anecdotes are inserted throughout, balancing critical assessments.” • Recovery Diva“The expertise and experience of the author stands out throughout this book, particularly in its focus on the built environment and disaster… Hopefully, the book will encourage new thinking among all those whose first pivot in planning and development, whether before or after a sudden-onset disaster, is to build more, bigger, and faster.” • Jane Henrici, Consulting Senior Researcher and Gender Advisor, World Bank-Haiti and Lecturer, George Washington University

• ForewordAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviatonsTimelinesIntroductionPart I: We Got Here For a ReasonChapter 1. Linkage between Disaster and DevelopmentChapter 2. Deliberate Actions and Debilitating Outcomes—Gaps AppearChapter 3. What Development Has Brought and Disaster WroughtChapter 4. Understanding Where the Disaster-Development Link LeadsChapter 5. Disaster-Development Linkage through the Lens of Disaster RecoveryChapter 6. Continuity in the Name of ConstituentsPart II: Once and Future Disaster Risk ReductionChapter 7. Redefining DRR in Development of the Built EnvironmentChapter 8. Making Risk Information VisibleChapter 9. Risk within Present and Emerging Economic Development ForcesPart III: DRR Will Be What It Is Conceived to BeChapter 10. Sustaining Nature of Disaster-Development LinkageChapter 11. Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in DevelopmentPart IV: They Who Call the TuneChapter 12. Built Environment Vulnerability and Development ProcessesChapter 13. Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, Regulation and EnforcementChapter 14. Policy Guidance on DRR Taken to DevelopmentChapter 15. What Has Been Found about the Future: Changes that Change PositionsConclusionReferencesIndex