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greater size and growth of urban places, and failure to create adequate risk reduction
strategies in too many centres, has increased the level of vulnerability and potential
loss in human lives, infrastructures and economies. Hence far more attention needs
to be paid to developing more resilient policies for urban places to cope with the
dangers posed by natural environmental processes, issues that have been ignored
for too often, or just accepted as one of the hazards of life, because of their irregular
occurrence. Such policies should also be developed with the co-operation of resi-
dents who often provide valuable insights, rather than being imposed from above,
which are the main objectives of reports by Arup (2011) and UNISDR (Blackburn
and Johnson
2012
). This will also ensure that the people most affected are able to
understand the scale of the risks which will make them more alert to the need to be
prepared, which used to come when settlements were primarily occupied by people
who had historic experience of the problems posed by local natural hazards.
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