Disaster Resilience and Human Settlements: Emerging Perspectives in the Anthropocene

ISBN-13: 9789819922475 / Angielski

Bharat Dahiya; Francesco de Pascale; Orlando de Pietro

Spis treści

Part 1
Introduction

1. Disaster Resilience and Human Settlements: Emerging Perspectives in the Anthropocene

Part 2
Flood Risk in Urban Areas: Disaster Resilience Assessment

2. Leaving nothing to chance: reducing flood risk by evaluating flood alert simulations in urban

Contexts

3. Urban growth and increasing flood impact in Palma De Mallorca: a loss of resilience

capacity?

4. Flood hazard analysis for disaster resilience assessment in urban areas: examples from the Adriatic coastal area of Central Italy

5. Addressing the Impacts of Inland Floods on Housing in Honiara, Solomon Islands

Part 3
Perceptions and Representations of Disasters and Climate Change in the Anthropocene

6. Disaster perception and education among adolescents: a geographical perspective in Palermo, Sicily

7. Social media in risk perception and disaster management: a geographical perspective

8. Environmental Hazards as Weapons: Histories, Geographies, Representations

9. Living on Mount Etna in the Anthropocene between risk and beauty: a field survey

10. Climate change perception: a case study in the secondary school in Calabria, Italy

11. Informal Settlements in Ghana: Adaptation through Disaster Risk Communication

Part 4
Narrations of Disasters and Climate Change Resilience in Urban and Rural areas

12. Resilient landscapes: how to contribute to a climate rebalancing by restoring landscape

13. Disaster preparedness for enhancing the resilience to volcanic risk impact in the Etna region

14. Disaster Resilience and Human Settlements in the Abruzzi region (Central Italy)

15. Revitalizing the wounded territory: the didactic geo-hiking's potential

16. Sense of belonging and response to climate change: how the relation of local populations

Part 5
Pandemic and Disaster Risk Reduction: for an Emergency Pedagogy

17. For an emergency pedagogy: the Covid-19 witness as a “cure” for Disaster Risk Reduction. A case study in Southern Italy

18. From Disasters to the Pandemic: A Study on the EU Solidarity Fund

19. Resilience and disability in the pandemic emergency. The role of education

Part 6
Disaster Resilience and Governance

 20. Disaster resilience and the role of disaster risk governance: Nepal and Thailand ​

O autorze

Prof. Bharat Dahiya is Director, Research Center for Sustainable Development and Innovation, School of Global Studies, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, and Extraordinary Professor, School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University, Western Cape, South Africa. 

 

Dr. Francesco De Pascale, Ph.D. in Geography, is Postdoc Researcher at the University of Teramo, and Adjunct Professor of Geography at University of Turin, Italy. 

 

Prof. Orlando De Pietro is Associate Professor of Experimental Pedagogy and teaches Educational Research Methodology and New Educational Technologies, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy.

 

Prof. Piero Farabollini is Associate Professor of Physical Geography/Geomorphology, School of Sciences and Technology, University of Camerino, Italy, and Extraordinary Commissioner for post-earthquake reconstruction of Central Italy (Oct. 2018 to Feb. 2020). 

 

Dr. Francesca Romana Lugeri is Researcher, Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Italy, and Associate Researcher at the School of Sciences and Technology, University of Camerino, Italy.

 

Prof. Leonardo Mercatanti is Associate Professor of Human Geography, Department of Culture and Society, University of Palermo, Italy, and is Associate Professor of Geography and Cultural Heritage, Department of Culture and Society, University of Palermo, Italy. 

Blurb

This book presents emerging perspectives on disaster resilience and human settlements in the larger context of the Anthropocene. The chapters explore urban and rural perspectives focusing on the current and emerging perspectives on disaster resilience through a holistic approach, involving scientists, humanists, planners, policymakers, and professionals in the global debate.