Environmental management and urban vulnerability.

Includes bibliographies

The papers in this volume were prepared as background for the conference on Environmental Management and Urban Vulnerability held at the World Bank on February 25, 1992

Reducing environmental vulnerability and managing disasters in urban areas; Population growth, urbanization, disaster risk, and vulnerability in metropolitan areas: a conceptual framework; Metropolitan areas and disaster vulnerability: a consideration for developing countries; Living with hazards: communities' adjustment mechanisms in developing countries; Vulnerability and resiliency: environmental degradation in major metropolitan areas of developing countries; Managing hazard-prone lands in cities of the developing world; Motor vehicle emissions in developing countries: relative implications for urban air quality; Urban vulnerability and technological hazards in developing societies; Issues and trends in emergency preparedness for technological disasters: moving beyond the natural and technological labels; Benin floods and bank responses: the case of Cotonou; Modern urban infrastructure: the Armenian case; Urbanization and vulnerability in Brazil: the current challenges; Geology and the planning of coastal cities in Asia and the Pacific; International collaboration for local earthquake response and recovery planning