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Urban Risk Management in China

Principles, Methods and Practices

  • 1st Edition - January 23, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Jianping Sun
  • Language: English

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Description

Urban Risk Management in China: Principles, Methods and Practices discusses the management of urban risk, the practical application of risk prevention, and the practice of control in the industry. Urban risk management is an emerging and interdisciplinary research field, and this book meets the urgent need to identify, analyze, and summarize urban risks and management difficulties that are experienced worldwide, especially in metropolitan cities. With rapid and large-scale urbanization, China's urban management experience in facing a series of comprehensive challenges provides a helpful way forward for urban planners around the world.

This book clarifies the concept of urban risk, which includes urban land use, housing, infrastructure construction, economic and social development, and environmental protection, with an aim of analyzing the obstacles to urban risk management, forming a cognitive framework, organizing the practice of urban risk management, and finally forming a workable urban risk management system.

Key features

  • Systematically discusses urban risk prevention and control in terms of its main forces, mechanisms, systems, and capabilities and presents a multidimensional pyramidal management framework between society, market, and government
  • Improves the typology of academic courses related to urban risk management and clarifies different branches of theoretical concepts and practical applications
  • Provides a solid foundation for an understanding of how urban risks evolve from accidents or incidents and identifies characteristics and patterns in risk sources
  • Proposes three mechanisms: co-governance, refined prevention and control, and multilayered guarantees as part of the full-lifecycle perspective in risk prevention, control, and management

Readership

Municipal government decision-makers, administrators, and related technicians in the field of prevention and control, especially providing supportive theories, technological decision-making for management of different industries and the relative personnel, which is helpful in training the inter-disciplinary talents for now and serving as a reference for risk management practical administrators. Academics interested in urban planning

Table of contents

1. Introduction The Subject Basis of Urban Risk Management

1.1 The Basis of Sociology of Urban Risk Management

1.1.1 The concept of Risk

1.1.2 Sociology of Risk

1.1.3 Responsibility Dilemma of Risk Society

1.1.4 The Key Concept in Urban Risk Management Research

1.2 Fundamentals of management of Urban Risk Management

1.2.1 Fundamentals of Economics

1.2.2 System and Decision Theoretical Basis

1.2.3 Management Science and Engineering Science

1.3 Other Subject Basis of Urban Risk Management

1.3.1 Subjects allied to Discipline Construction of Urban Risk Management

1.3.2 Subject Position

1.4 Brief Sum-up

2. The Concept of Urban Risk

2.1 Urban Risk is a Continuum Conceptual system

2.1.1 Urban Risk Under the view of Cross Disciplines

2.1.2 Urban Risk Concept is representative of continuity and integrality

2.1.3 Urban Risk is the Unity of Subjective and Objective

2.2 The Category and Characteristics of Urban Risk

2.2.1 The Category

2.2.2 The Characteristics

2.3 Brief Sum-Up

3. The Classification of Urban Risk

3.1 Urban Risk Classification under the Perspective of Events

3.1.1 The Concept of Emergency

3.1.2 Natural Disaster

3.1.3 Accident Disaster

3.1.4 Social Security Incident

3.2 Urban Risk Classification based on "People--City" Oriented System Interaction

3.2.1 Interactive Subsystem of People and City

3.2.2 Urban Risk Under the View of "People--Space"

3.2.3 Urban Risk Under the View of "People--Operating Safeguard System"

3.2.4 Urban Risk Under the View of "People--Industry System"

3.3 Urban Risk Classification Based on City Life Cycle"

3.3.1 Urban Planning Stage

3.3.2 Urban Construction and Development Stage

3.3.3 Urban Shrinking Stage

3.3.4 Urban Renewal Stage

3.4 Brief Sum-Up

4. Relative Laws And Regulations on Urban Risk Management

4.1 Relative Law System on Urban Risk Management

4.2 The History Evolution on Relative Laws and Regulations of China’s Urban Risk

4.2.1 The First Stage: Year 1949-Year2003

4.2.2 The Second Stage: Year 2003-Year2018

4.2.3 The Third Stage: Year 2018 till Now

4.3 Problems Existing in Relative Laws and Regulations of Urban Risk

4.3.1 Safe Production Laws and Regulations System to be Completed

4.3.2 Systematic Emergency Management Laws and Regulations to be Enforced

4.3.3 Disaster Prevention&Mitigation Law System is Facing New Challenge

4.3.4 Functions to Criteria as Technical Laws Need to be Enforced

4.3.5 Not High Effective Supervising Law Enforcement, Not Good Enterprise Execution

4.4 Speeding up the Construction of Systems on Urban Security Laws with Chinese Characteristic

4.4.1 Guided by the Socialism Thoughts with Chinese Characteristics in New Era, Strengthen The top-Level Design

4.4.2 Fully Realize the Important Meaning of Law-Based Governance

4.4.3 Deeply Specify the Brief Task of Law-Based Governance

4.4.4 Perfect the Laws and Regulations Dynamically

4.5 Brief Sum-up

5. The Principal Part and Key Mechanism of Urban Risk Management

5.1 The Principal Managing Part of Urban Risk Management

5.1.1 Diversity to the Principal Managing Part

5.1.2 The Principal Part of Specific Risk Management Stage(1949-2003)

5.1.3 The Principal Part of Comprehensive Risk Management Exploring Stage(2003-2017)

5.1.4 The Principal Part of Comprehensive Risk Management Developing Stage(2018-till Now)

5.1.5 The Future Changing Trends of the The Principal Managing Part of Urban Risk Management

5.2 Urban Risk Prevention and Control Coordinating System

5.2.1 Risk Prevention and Control Coordination in Facing with Natural Disaster

5.2.2 Risk Prevention and Control Coordination in Facing with Accident Disaster

5.2.3 Risk Prevention and Control Coordination in Facing with Public Sanitary Events

5.2.4 Risk Prevention and Control Coordination in Facing with Society Security Events

5.3 China’s Practice on Urban Risk Management in the Background of Multi Management

5.3.1 Multi Management is inevitable for Urban Risk Management

5.3.2 Exploring the Multi Management Frame of"Government, Market and Society Pyramid"

5.4 Joint Session System--China Practice on Urban Risk Management()

5.4.1 Concept, Traits and Advantages

5.4.2 Problems, Causes and the Way to Solve

5.4.3 Joint Session Cases Analysis:Integration of Yangtze River Delta Emergency Management

5.5 Multi Management on Community--China Practice on Urban Risk Management ()

5.5.1 Challenge and Requirement to Community Risk management

5.5.2 Community Multi Management

5.5.3 Practice on Community Management

5.6 Brief Sum-up

6. Urban Risk Prevention and Control System, and Ability Construction

6.1 China Urban Risk Status and Challenge

6.1.1 Fast Urbanization Diluted the Strength of Risk Prevention and Control

6.1.2 "Black Swan、Grey Rhino、Big White Elephant" Risk Verticillate

6.1.3 New Challenge for Urban Digital Transformation

6.1.4 To Be Strengthened the Basic Level Risk Management Ability

6.1.5 To Be Enhanced the Risk Control Integrity

6.1.6 Growing Comprehensive Risk of Public Opinion in Media Transformation Time

6.2 Urban Risk Prevention and Control System Based on the Full Life Circle

6.2.1 Development Related to Full Life Circle

6.2.2 Urban Risk Prevention and Control System Constitution Based on Full Life Circle

6.2.3 The key to Sustainable Development in Urban Risk Prevention and Control

6.2.4 China Practice on Urban Risk Prevention and Control Based on Full Life Circle

6.3 Ability Construction to Urban Risk Prevention and Control in the Background of Urban Digital Transformation

6.3.1 The Contents of Urban Digital Transformation

6.3.2 Theory Development Stage of Urban Digital Transformation

6.3.4 China Practice on Risk Prevention and Control Ability in Digital City

6.4 Brief Sum-up

7. Key Flow and Technology in Urban Risk Prevention and Control

7.1 Urban Risk Prevention and Control Direction

7.1.1 Direction to Risk Control

7.1.2 Train of Thoughts to Risk Prevention and Control

7.2 Recognition and Analysis to Urban Risk

7.2.1 Qualitative Analysis Method

7.2.2 Quantitative Analysis Method

7.3 Urban Risk Evaluation

7.3.1 Typical Risk Evaluation Method

7.3.2 Urban Risk Grade Classification

7.3.3 Types of Urban Risk Evaluation

7.4 Urban Risk Supervising

7.4.1 The Aim for Urban Risk Supervising

7.4.2 The Application of Urban Risk Supervising

7.4.3 Typical Risk Supervising Technology7.5 Urban Risk Pre-Warning

7.5.1 Urban Risk Index

7.5.2 Urban Risk Map

7.5.3 Urban Risk Pre-Warning Architecture

7.5.4 Urban Risk pre-warning System

7.6 Urban Risk and Insurance

7.6.1 Functions and Principles of Insurance

7.6.2 Analysis on Insurance Status in Our Cities

7.6.3 The Function Revelization of Urban Risk Insurance

7.6.4 Main Types of Our Urban Insurance

7.7 Urban Risk Management Path and Method Based on Our Practice

7.8 Brief Sum-up

8. China"s Practice on the Construction of Safe and Tenacity City

8.1 Tenacity and its Contents

8.1.1 Concept and Transformation of Tenacity

8.1.2 Construction Contents of Tenacity

8.1.3 Three Key Ability in Tenacity City Construction

8.2 Train of Thoughts in Safe and Tenacity City Construction

8.2.1 Common Opinion in Safe and Tenacity City Construction

8.2.2 Direction of Safe and Tenacity City Construction

8.2.3 Safe and Tenacity City Construction Strategy

8.3 Construction Fields of Safe and Tenacity city

8.3.1 Strengthen Urban Space Tenacity

8.3.2 Strengthen Urban Engineering Tenacity

8.3.3 Strengthen Urban Management Tenacity

8.4 Brief Sum-up

Appendix/ Main relative Laws and Regulations on Urban Risk Management

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 23, 2024
  • Language: English

About the author

JS

Jianping Sun

Jianping Sun, Professor and Doctoral supervisor, is Dean of Institute for Urban Risk Management (URMI) at Tongji University. He has extensive management and administrative experience in the fields of urban planning and construction, and the operations of public transit systems and facility operations. His recent research focuses on theoretical applications in urban risk management, systemic innovations, and various informatic system applications. His major research accomplishments include: (1) serving as the principal project director for Approaches and Strategies on Improvement of the Comprehensive Emergency Management in the Metropolitans, funded by the National Social Science Fund; (2) participating in the Key High -precision Positioning Technology and Its Application in Active Traffic Safety and Maintenance and Construction Work Safety Risk Prevention and Control Technology in Highways and Urban Expressways, a project that earned him the first place in the Shanghai Science and technological Progress Award and the first place in the Science and Technological Progress Award by Shanghai Traffic Engineering Society respectively. He is the Executive Editor in Chief for the Series in Urban Risk Management, a publication project sponsored by the National Key Publications Project and the National Publication Foundation. The series include such works as An Introduction to Urban Safety Prevention and Control and Risk Management in Construction Quality and Safety. He has also authored the edited volume, entitled the Operating Safety Development Report of Shanghai, a blue book that provides the first “physical check-up” for Shanghai’s urban safety management and has attracted wide attention among government agencies and policy makers.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Doctoral supervisor, Dean, Institute for Urban Risk Management (URMI), Tongji University

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