This paper is a work in progress and comments are welcome. Introduction This paper considers aspects of participation processes in urban regeneration, including the results of case study research into two urban regeneration programmes: the North Belfast Housing Strategy in Northern Ireland, and the Ballymun regeneration initiative in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The paper begins with a review o...

In this chapter we provide an overview of the socio-economic and ecological effects and trends of wildfire in the WUI, methods for assessing wildfire risk in the WUI, approaches to managing the wildfire problem including fuels management, home construction and design, and community action programs. This overview is combined with two case studies analyzing wildfire risk and the use of prescribed...

Improving the urban livability status has become core goal of development, and reasonable assessment impact is crucial. By combining an objective environment with residents’ subjective cognition, artificial society (urban change society; ULC-AS) constructed. The ULC-AS includes four types agents, namely, government, family, resident safety facility management agency recognizes dynamic interacti...