Disaster Management: Global Problems and Local Solutions
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Summary
The world is becoming increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters. Disaster data in recent years shows an increase in the physical, social, and economic impacts of these tragedies. While a global perspective of disaster management is necessary, it is also important to emphasize local solutions. This volume targets some of the key issues of disaster management on the local level, focusing on innovative research and applications. A reference book for researchers and practitioners, this text explores different types of hazards and disasters and examines the interrelated themes of risk and vulnerability, technology, education, and community.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Disaster Management: An Overview
Hazards and Disasters
Earthquake Risk Management: Problems and Prospects
Tsunami Risk Reduction
Flood Risk Management
Cyclone Risk: Mitigation and Management
Drought Risk Management
Post-tsunami Hazards along the Indian Coast
Risk and Vulnerability
Building Codes and Land Use Planning: Challenges of Development and Enforcement
Social Vulnerability: Who Draws the Line? Where and Why?
Macroeconomic Management and Sustainable Development
Environmental Vulnerability and Disaster Risk Reduction
Climate Change Risk Reduction: Decision-making in Uncertainty
Financial Management of Disaster-related Economic Losses
Disaster Reduction Technology
Implementation Technology for Disaster Reduction
Disaster Management for Infrastructure
Geospatial Information in Agricultural Drought Assessment and Monitoring
Multimedia Technology in Disaster Risk Management Training
Transferable Indigenous Knowledge in Disaster Reduction: The Japanese Experience
Education and Community
Education in Disaster Risk Reduction
Essentials of School Disaster Education: Example from Kobe, Japan
Community Capacity and Disaster Resilience
Community-based Disaster Recovery
Community-based Disaster Management and Social Capital
Designing Resilience: Building Community Capacity for Action
Crosscutting Issues
Disaster, Environment and Development: Opportunities for Integration in Asia-Pacific Region
Impact of Disaster on Poverty and Deprivation
Climate Change Adaptation and Human Health: Linkages of Climate, Disaster and Health issues in Vietnam
Exposure, Health Hazards and Environmental Risk: Study in Chennai, India
Hydrometeorological Disasters and Agriculture
Forest Management and Disaster Risk Reduction
Rural Livelihood and Disaster Risk Reduction: A Case Study from Central Vietnam
Essentials of Urban Disaster Risk Reduction
Institutional Capacity in Disaster Management: The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
Corporate Sector and Disaster Risk Reduction: A Community-focussed Approach
Essentials of Predisaster Recovery Planning
The African Experiences of Disaster Risk Reduction
Postscript
Disaster Management: The Way Ahead
Index
Editorial Reviews
The book is organized in a manner readily recognizable to disaster professionals, starting with descriptions of likely hazards, working through risk and vulnerability, then on to recovery, communication, and cooperation.
—Natural Hazards Observer
