期刊名称：Human Geographies : Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography
印刷版ISSN：1843-6587
电子版ISSN：2067-2284
出版年度：2018
卷号：12
期号：1
页码：97-114
DOI：10.5719/hgeo.2018.121.6
出版社：University of Bucharest
摘要：Urbanization is a worldwide process, occurring rapidly with adverse consequences on the
environment and people. More exactly, urbanization aggravates natural risks and creates
additional articial risks; this is a key issue for urban planning, which can reduce the
exposure and negative outcomes if its provisions are properly enforced. This article is based
on observations from Bejaia, Algeria. Each year, the city suffers from disasters including
oods, forest res and landslides. This situation has led to the question whether urban
planning observes the regulations from other domains. In order to answer it, different risks
threatening the city were modeled and mapped. The results consist of computing the
number of buildings situated within non-aedicandi zones by the type of risk. The results
show that 15,832 buildings violate the law. Moreover, natural hazards (78.31%) are a more
important threat than the articial ones (21.69%). The most important natural risks are due
to forest res (44.82%), and the explosion of the industrial zones (15.24%) is the dominant
articial risk. The ndings show that planning can help reducing the risk exposure within
the urban areas, if the planning provisions are properly enforced. Moreover, the article
makes a signicant contribution to demonstrating the possible consequences of sacricing
long-term safety for short-term political interests.
