Sustainable development and disaster risk reduction

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 man...

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Other Authors: Uitto, Juha I.,, Shaw, Rajib,, SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Tokyo : Springer, 2016.
Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations.
Series: Disaster risk reduction.
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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.