Description
Disasters undermine societal well-being, causing loss of lives and damage to social and economic infrastructures. Disaster resilience is central to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, especially in regions where extreme inequality combines with the increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters.Disaster risk reduction and resilience requires participation of wide array of stakeholders ranging from academicians to policy makers to disaster managers. Disaster Resilient Cities: Adaptation for Sustainable Development offers evidence-based, problem-solving techniques from social, natural, engineering and other disciplinary perspectives. It connects data, research, conceptual work with practical cases on disaster risk management, capturing the multi-sectoral aspects of disaster resilience, adaptation strategy and sustainability. The book links disaster risk management with sustainable development under a common umbrella, showing that effective disaster resilience strategies and practices lead to achieving broader sustainable development goals.- Provides foundational knowledge on integrated disaster risk reduction and management to show how resilience and its associated concept such as adaptive and transformative strategies can foster sustainable development- Brings together disaster risk reduction and resilience scientists, policy-makers and practitioners from different disciplines- Case studies on disaster risk management from natural science, social science, engineering and other relevant disciplinary perspectives
Table of Contents
1. Disaster Resilience a key player on achieving sustainable development goals: A regional perspective2. Role of Public Policy in Disaster Risk Reduction: A Review3. Transboundary Water Risk Governance Frameworks in Deltaic Socio-Economic Regions: A Case Study of River Deltas in Bangladesh, India, and Vietnam4. Framing the Determinants of Drought Vulnerability in Malawian Communities: An Exposure, Susceptibility and Capacity Perspective from Karonga District5. Disaster-resilience and Sustainability in South and South East Asia: The Politico-Diplomatic Equations of Regional Cooperation6. Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment Model for GIS-based Seismic Risk Study of Thiruvananthapuram City7. Assessment of Groundwater Vulnerability in Highly Industrialized Noyyal Basin Using AHP-Drastic and Geographic Information System8. GIS-based Landslide Susceptibility Zonation Mapping using Fuzzy Gamma Operator Model in Part of Trans-Asian Highway (Mao–Kangpokpi), Manipur, India9. GIS perspective hazard risk assessment – A study of Fiji Island10. 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 2003-201811. Flood damage assessment with multi-temporal earth observation SAR satellite images12. 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 Thailand14. Characterization of Meteorological Droughts in the Upper Bhima Catchment of Maharashtra State, India15. Challenges in Main Streaming Climate Resilience in Land Use Planning: A Case Study in Malaysian Local Government16. Identification of drought intensity and development of drought resilience in the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh, India17. 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 Transition19. Conceptualizing an Integrated Framework for Natural Hazards, Insurance, and Poverty Nexus20. Pre and Post- Disaster Human Settlements Development in Urban Areas: A Case Study in Thailand21. Estimation of District-wise Livelihood Vulnerability Index for the Four Coastal States in India22. Assessing the Role of a Rehabilitated Polder in Sustainable Agricultural Development: A Case Study from Bangladesh23. Risk Reduction and Resilience Build-up in Railroad transport24. Salinity and the Health of the Poor in Coastal Bangladesh25. Assessing the impact of damage and government response towards the cyclone Gaja in Tamil Nadu, India26. 2017 Flash Flood in Bangladesh: Lessons learnt27. Effects of Soil Erosion on Water Quality: A Case Study from Uma-Oya Catchment, Sri Lanka28. Citizen Sciences for Smart Water Solution in Southwestern part of Bangladesh29. Social capital and disaster risk reduction in a periurban context30. Disaster Risk Reduction Education (DRRE) and Resilience in Asia-Pacific31. In Pursuit of a Taxonomical Definition of Disaster Diplomacy – An Empirical Scientometric Analysis32. Formal and Non-formal Disaster Education interventions in Pakistan Chapter33. Last mile communication of Multi-hazard Early Warning- a Case study on Bangladesh
