Disaster risk and vulnerability : mitigation through mobilizing communities and partnerships /

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 coll...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Etkin, David (Editor ), Haque, Chowdhury Emdadul (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Hazard mitigation.
Emergency management.
Natural disasters > Risk assessment.
Disaster Planning
Catastrophes naturelles > Évaluation du risque.
Catastrophes > Réduction.
Gestion des situations d'urgence.
disaster planning.
NATURE > Natural Disasters.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disasters & Disaster Relief.
Emergency management
Hazard mitigation
Natural disasters > Risk assessment
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Tables""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction
  • Dealing with Disaster Risk and Vulnerability: People, Community, and Resilience Perspectives""; ""Part one
  • Conceptual Considerations in Risk and Vulnerability Reduction""; ""1
  • Understanding Uncertainty and Reducing Vulnerability: Lessons from Resilience Thinking""; ""2
  • Community-Level Emergency Management: Placing Social Capital""; ""3
  • Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction: Realizing the Primacy of Community""
  • ""Part two
  • International Perspectives on Disaster Risk Management and Public Policies""""4
  • The Intersection of Policies on Disaster Management, Climate Change, and International Development""; ""5
  • Mountain Hazards and the Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems: Examples from India and Canada""; ""6
  • Grassroots Participation versus Dictated Partnership: Anatomy of the Turkish Risk Management Reality""; ""7
  • Disaster Management and Public Policies in Bangladesh: Institutional Partnerships in Cyclone Hazards Mitigation and Response""
  • ""Part three
  • Natural Hazards and Emergency Management in Canada""""8
  • Emergency Management Education in Canada: A View from the Crossroads""; ""9
  • Public and Expert Knowledge and Perception of Climate Changeâ€?Induced Disaster Risk: Canadian Prairie Perspectives""; ""10
  • Natural Hazard Identification, Mapping, and Vulnerability Assessment in Atlantic Canada: Progress and Challenges""; ""11
  • Infrastructure Failure Interdependencies in Extreme Events: The 1998 Ice Storm""; ""Contributors""

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