尹·戴维斯博士是英国牛津理工大学建筑学院高级讲师、防灾管理中心主任。他在防灾研究方面是国际权威人士。本文以丰富的资料和实例分析了人口问题和城市化的压力以及灾害与城市化的关系等问题.并提出了实行减灾对策和措施的建议。它对全世界,特别是发展中国家,在不可避免的城市化过程中,如何认识城市的灾害隐患,防止和减少灾害的破坏,是值得参考和研究的。本刊略有删节。 Dr. Davis is a senior lecturer and director of the Center for Disaster Management at the School of Architecture, Oxford University of Technology. He is an international authority on disaster prevention research. This article analyzes the problems of population issues and urbanization and the relationship between disasters and urbanization with rich data and examples. It also puts forward suggestions for implementing disaster reduction strategies and measures. For the whole world, especially the developing countries, in the process of inevitable urbanization, how to understand the hidden dangers of the city and prevent and reduce the damage of the disaster is worthy of reference and research. This edition is slightly abridged.