Buch, Englisch, 469 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 7372 g
Reihe: Environmental Hazards
Examining Global Issues and Cases
Buch, Englisch, 469 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 7372 g
Reihe: Environmental Hazards
ISBN: 978-3-319-35665-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
This book offers a systematic, empirical examination of the concepts of disasters and sustainable economic development applied to many cases around the world. It presents comprehensive coverage of the complex and dynamic relationship between disaster and development, making a vital contribution to the literature on disaster management, disaster resilience and sustainable development. The book collects twenty-three chapters, examining theoretical issues and investigating practical cases on policy, governance, and lessons learned in dealing with different types of disasters (e.g., earthquakes, floods and hurricanes) in twenty countries and communities around the world.
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I- Risk Reduction and Policy Learning
1. Disasters, Development and Resilience: Exploring the Need for Risk Reduction and Capacity Building
2. Focusing Events in Disasters and Development
3. Linking Development to Disasters in Turkey: Moving forward after the Marmara Earthquake
4. Disaster Management System in Azerbaijan: The Case of 2010 Kura River Flood
5. What’s Been Done? Louisiana after Katrina
6. Disaster Events and Policy Change in Florida
7. Beyond the Hyogo Framework: Disaster Management in the Republic of Lebanon
8. How about this new title?; Disaster Policies Management in Korea
II- Disaster Resilience and Capacity Building
9. Disasters, the Whole Community, and Development as Capacity Building
10. Finding Resilient Networks: Measuring Resilience in Post-Extreme Event Reconstruction Missions
11. The Role of Natural Functions in Shaping Community Resiliency to Floods
12. Hazard Mitigation, Economic Development and Resilience: A Comparative Analysis of Flood Control Policy and Practice in Germany, The Netherlands, and Great Britain
13. The Public Policy Dimension of Resilience in Natural Disaster Management: Sweden’s Gudrun and Per Storms
14. Recovery and Development: Perspectives from New Zealand and Australia
15. Disaster and Development in Ghana: Improving Disaster Resiliency at the Local Level
16. Evolving and Implementing a New Disaster Management Paradigm: The Case of the Philippines
III- Recovery, Development, and Collaborative Emergency Management
17. The Role of Nonprofits and Civil Society in Post-Disaster Recovery and Development
18. California Seismic Safety Commission: Multi-disciplinary Collaboration for Seismic Safety
19. Multi-sector Partnerships in Disaster Housing Recovery: An Examination of Housing Development Approaches in India
20. Re-development, Recovery and Mitigation after the 2010 Catastrophic Floods: The Pakistani Experience
21. Community-based Recovery and Development in Tohoku, Japan
22. The Impact of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake on Disaster Policies and Development
23.Post-Wenchuan Earthquake Reconstruction and Development in China