Sustainable development and disaster risk reduction
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Sustainable development and disaster risk reduction
(Disaster risk reduction : methods, approaches and practices)
Springer, c2016
- : hbk
Available at 7 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book focuses on exploring the linkages between natural disasters and sustainable development at the global, regional, and national levels. Disasters and development are closely related, yet the disciplinary silos prevail and there is little communication and cooperation between the disaster management, environment, and development communities. One catastrophic event, such as an earthquake, tsunami, or cyclone, can destroy infrastructure, people's lives and livelihoods, and set back development. Similarly, slow onset disasters-often associated with global climate change-pose threats to development, livelihoods, food security, and long-term sustainable development. This book is uniquely aimed at bridging the gaps between the environmental, development, and disaster management communities. It traces the evolution of concepts and practice and highlights the linkages between natural disasters and sustainable development in key sectors, including food security, health, and water. The book includes case studies from the field highlighting the complex issues that challenge sustainable development and disaster risk management in practice. It draws policy conclusions for the global community based on state-of-the art knowledge from research and practice.
The primary target groups for the book are researchers, including graduate students, in the fields of environment and sustainable development, geography, disaster risk reduction, and climate change studies. The second target group comprises practitioners and policymakers working in national and international organizations, the private sector, and civil society.
Table of Contents
Introduction.- Sustainable Development, Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Management.- Risk and Vulnerability.- Building Urban Climate Resilience: Experiences from Vulnerability Assessment in Hue city, Viet Nam Resilience, Transition and Transformation.- Climate Change Risks - Methodological Framework and Case Study of Damages from Extreme Events in Cambodia.- Food security, climate change adaptation, and disaster risk.- Human Health as Pre-conditioning Nutrition towards Achieving Sustainable Development.- Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction: Experiences, Challenges and Opportunities in the Post-2015 Development Agenda.- Access, equity and hazards: Highlighting a socially just and ecologically resilient perspective on water resources.- Sustainable Development and Coastal Disasters: Linking Policies to Practices.- Climate Change and Integrated Approach to Water Resource Management in the Murray-Darling Basin.- Vulnerability and Sustainable Development: Issues and Challenges from the Philippines' Agricultural and Water Sectors.- Community-based approaches to sustainable development and disaster risk reduction.- Education, Training, and Capacity Building for Sustainable Development.- Missing the Forests for the Trees? Assessing the Use of Impact Evaluations in Forestry Programmes.- Integration of Indigenous Knowledge into Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) Policies for Sustainable Development: The Case Of The Agta In Casiguran, Philippines.- Usefulness of a Sustainability Literacy Test.- Sustainable development and disaster risk reduction in post-2015.
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