Disaster Resilience and Sustainability: Adaptation for Sustainable Development

ISBN-13: 9780323851954 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 836 str.

Indrajit Pal; Rajib Shaw; Riyanti Djalante

Spis treści

1. Disaster Resilience a key player on achieving sustainable development goals: A regional perspective

2. Role of Public Policy in Disaster Risk Reduction: A Review

3. Transboundary Water Risk Governance Frameworks in Deltaic Socio-Economic Regions: A Case Study of River Deltas in Bangladesh, India, and Vietnam

4. Framing the Determinants of Drought Vulnerability in Malawian Communities: An Exposure, Susceptibility and Capacity Perspective from Karonga District

5. Disaster-resilience and Sustainability in South and South East Asia: The Politico-Diplomatic Equations of Regional Cooperation

6. Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment Model for GIS-based Seismic Risk Study of Thiruvananthapuram City

7. Assessment of Groundwater Vulnerability in Highly Industrialized Noyyal Basin Using AHP-Drastic and Geographic Information System

8. GIS-based Landslide Susceptibility Zonation Mapping using Fuzzy Gamma Operator Model in Part of Trans-Asian Highway (Mao-Kangpokpi), Manipur, India

9. GIS perspective hazard risk assessment - A study of Fiji Island

10. Inter-annual and intra-annual comparative study of Sea Surface Temperature distribution over the Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea within the time frame of 2003-2018

11. Flood damage assessment with multi-temporal earth observation SAR satellite images

12. Ecosystem for Disaster Risk Reduction in Bangladesh: A case study after the Cyclone "AILA"

13. Climate risk information as a basis for adaptive spatial planning: A case study from Thailand

14. Characterization of Meteorological Droughts in the Upper Bhima Catchment of Maharashtra State, India

15. Challenges in Main Streaming Climate Resilience in Land Use Planning: A Case Study in Malaysian Local Government

16. Identification of drought intensity and development of drought resilience in the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh, India

17. Assessing the impact of 2018 tropical rainfall and the consecutive flood-related damage for the state of Kerala, India.

18. Coastal Ecosystems and Changing Economic Activities: Challenges for Sustainability Transition

19. Conceptualizing an Integrated Framework for Natural Hazards, Insurance, and Poverty Nexus

20. Pre and Post- Disaster Human Settlements Development in Urban Areas: A Case Study in Thailand

21. Estimation of District-wise Livelihood Vulnerability Index for the Four Coastal States in India

22. Assessing the Role of a Rehabilitated Polder in Sustainable Agricultural Development: A Case Study from Bangladesh

23. Risk Reduction and Resilience Build-up in Railroad transport

24. Salinity and the Health of the Poor in Coastal Bangladesh

25. Assessing the impact of damage and government response towards the cyclone Gaja in Tamil Nadu, India

26. 2017 Flash Flood in Bangladesh: Lessons learnt

27. Effects of Soil Erosion on Water Quality: A Case Study from Uma-Oya Catchment, Sri Lanka

28. Citizen Sciences for Smart Water Solution in Southwestern part of Bangladesh

29. Social capital and disaster risk reduction in a periurban context

30. Disaster Risk Reduction Education (DRRE) and Resilience in Asia-Pacific

31. In Pursuit of a Taxonomical Definition of Disaster Diplomacy - An Empirical Scientometric Analysis

32. Formal and Non-formal Disaster Education interventions in Pakistan Chapter

33. Last mile communication of Multi-hazard Early Warning- a Case study on Bangladesh

O autorze

Sangam Shrestha is Associate Professor and Program Chair of Water Engineering and Management at the Asian Institute of Technology. He researches water resources management, climate change impact assessment, and groundwater assessment and management. Shrestha has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented more than 60 conference papers. He is the co-author of "Groundwater Environment in Asian Cities: Concepts, Methods and Case Studies” (Elsevier) Riyanti Djalante is Academic Programme Officer at United Nations University. She coordinates the research and policy Development stream on Global Change and Resilience, focusing on sustainable development, governance, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation. Dr. Rajib Shaw is a professor at Keio University's Graduate School of Media and Governance. He is also the Chairperson of SEEDS Asia and CWS Japan, two Japanese NGOs, and a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan. He was previously the Executive Director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) and a Kyoto University Professor. Disaster governance, community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education are all areas of interest for him. Professor Shaw is the Chair of the UN Science Technology Advisory Group for Disaster Risk Reduction (STAG) and the Co-Chair of the Asia Science Technology Academic Advisory Group (ASTAAG). He's also the CLA (Coordinating Lead Author) for the IPCC's 6th Assessment Report's Asia chapter. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal "Progress in Disaster Science" published by Elsevier, as well as the series editor of a Springer book series on disaster risk reduction. Prof. Shaw has over 45 books to his credit, as well as over 300 scholarly papers and book chapters. Indrajit Pal is Assistant Professor of Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management at the Asian Institute of Technology. He has more than 16 years' experience in researching, teaching, training, and consulting on disaster risk governance, incident command system, hazard and risk assessment, CBDRM, public health risk, disaster resilience, and DRR Education. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed journal papers, conference papers, and books.