From the Asian tsunami of 2004 to hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Tohoku earthquake of 2011, our century has been fraught with catastrophic natural disasters. Disaster Risk and Vulnerability assesses the human toll and economic losses of natural disasters and reasserts the importance of human collaboration and organization in disaster management.
In most cases, policy makers, planners, managers, and regulators who implement disaster risk reduction response planning and management strategies remain detached from local conditions, failing to address them effectively. Presenting case studies from Asia and North America, as well as a broad range of approaches to community mobilization and partnership development, contributors show that local communities, all levels of government, and non-governmental organizations must work collectively in order to reduce the harm caused by disasters.
Despite unprecedented progress in science and technology and governments' continued efforts in disaster risk reduction, socioeconomic losses due to environmental disasters continue to rise. Disaster Risk and Vulnerability provides knowledge and information that will benefit anyone working in the fields of environment, disasters, and community mobilization in an effort to reverse this trend.
Authors
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- Includes bibliographical references
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 363.34/6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- General Note
- Published for the Canadian Risks [sic] and Hazards Network Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780773587069 9780773539631
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- HV551.2
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- D57 2012eb
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- 1 electronic text (xvi, 300 p.)
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- Canada
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00230486 (OCoLC)797333745 (CaOOCEL)443420
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Figures 8
- Tables 10
- Foreword 12
- Acknowledgments 16
- Introduction - Dealing with Disaster Risk and Vulnerability: People, Community, and Resilience Perspectives 20
- Part one - Conceptual Considerations in Risk and Vulnerability Reduction 42
- 1 - Understanding Uncertainty and Reducing Vulnerability: Lessons from Resilience Thinking 44
- 2 - Community-Level Emergency Management: Placing Social Capital 62
- 3 - Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction: Realizing the Primacy of Community 88
- Part two - International Perspectives on Disaster Risk Management and Public Policies 108
- 4 - The Intersection of Policies on Disaster Management, Climate Change, and International Development 110
- 5 - Mountain Hazards and the Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems: Examples from India and Canada 125
- 6 - Grassroots Participation versus Dictated Partnership: Anatomy of the Turkish Risk Management Reality 154
- 7 - Disaster Management and Public Policies in Bangladesh: Institutional Partnerships in Cyclone Hazards Mitigation and Response 171
- Part three - Natural Hazards and Emergency Management in Canada 200
- 8 - Emergency Management Education in Canada: A View from the Crossroads 202
- 9 - Public and Expert Knowledge and Perception of Climate Change–Induced Disaster Risk: Canadian Prairie Perspectives 217
- 10 - Natural Hazard Identification, Mapping, and Vulnerability Assessment in Atlantic Canada: Progress and Challenges 252
- 11 - Infrastructure Failure Interdependencies in Extreme Events: The 1998 Ice Storm 292
- Contributors 312
