Deconstructing Risk through Development of the Built Environment

Abstract (English)

The global growth of economic development and of risk to the built environment includes choosing, deliberately or otherwise, the level of vulnerability. Therefore, new epistemologies, terms, and definitions are in order. This necessitates a multi-faceted (symbiosis theory) focus examining fact, not opinion, as to the form and substance of regulation and enforcement of codes, laws and plans governing risk to atmospheric, geologic, and hydroelectric events striking economic and social physical infrastructure. It also includes examining the multiple facets (including rent-seeking) which conditions proposition, judgement and selection of levels of risk of economic and social infrastructure in all sectors.