Urban Risk Management in China

This book is the culmination of the author's research on Urban Risk Management, based on research on practical applications on risk prevention and control practice in the industry. The main goal of this book is to make clear the concept of urban risk, analyse the objects to urban risk management, form a cognitive framework, arrange the practice on Chinese urban risk management, and finally to form a workable urban risk management system. - 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

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."