'Artificial' Land and 'Natural' Disaster: Hazard and Vulnerability on Created Urban Land
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, waterfront cities expanded over wetlands and shallow water by building land on which to build the city. Today, this artificial land is threatened by a range of environmental hazards. This increases the risk of natural disaster for people occupying...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1807/30183 |