Urban Risk Management in China: Principles, Methods and Practices

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.

• 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.