Understanding disaster risk : a multidimensional approach /

Understanding Disaster Risk: A Multidimensional Approach presents the first principle from the UNISDR Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2015-2030. The framework includes a discussion of risk and resilience from both a theoretical and governance perspective in light of ideas that are shap...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Santos, Pedro Pinto (Editor ), Chmutina, Ksenia (Editor ), Von Meding, Jason (Editor ), Raju, Emmanuel (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier, [2021]
Temas:
Natural disasters > Risk assessment.
Emergency management.
Disaster relief.
Relief Work
Catastrophes naturelles > �Evaluation du risque.
Secours aux victimes de catastrophes.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Understanding Disaster Risk: A Multidimensional Approach
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 0.1: Resilience in the Anthropocene
  • 0.1.1. Introduction
  • 0.1.2. Methodology
  • 0.1.3. Results
  • 0.1.3.1. Insights from human geography
  • 0.1.3.2. Insights from systemic design
  • 0.1.3.3. Insights from futures studies
  • 0.1.4. Discussion
  • 0.1.5. Final considerations
  • References
  • Section 1: Risk assessment
  • Chapter 1.1: Bridging two cultures of fire risk at the wildland-urban interface: The case of Haifa, Israel
  • 1.1.1. Introduction
  • 1.1.1.1. The social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) framework
  • 1.1.1.2. Forest-fire risk at the wildland urban interface in Mediterranean ecosystems
  • 1.1.1.3. Adapting to forest fires at the WUI: State of the art
  • 1.1.2. Studying forest fires at the WUI in Haifa
  • 1.1.2.1. Case study description
  • 1.1.2.2. Methodology
  • 1.1.3. Results
  • 1.1.3.1. Factors and configuration of fire risk in Haifa
  • 1.1.3.1.1. The hazard
  • 1.1.3.1.2. Exposure
  • 1.1.3.2. Approaches for adapting to fire risk at the WUI in Haifa
  • 1.1.3.2.1. Thinning
  • 1.1.3.2.2. Firebreaks and buffers
  • 1.1.3.2.3. Removing pine trees
  • 1.1.3.2.4. Landscape patchiness
  • 1.1.3.2.5. Grazing
  • 1.1.3.2.6. Other strategies
  • 1.1.4. Discussion
  • 1.1.5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Chapter 1.2: A review of flood vulnerability indices for coastal cities
  • 1.2.1. Introduction
  • 1.2.1.1. Qualitative and quantitative measures of vulnerability
  • 1.2.2. Methods
  • 1.2.3. Results and discussion
  • 1.2.3.1. Conceptions of vulnerability
  • 1.2.3.2. Audience and stated goals
  • 1.2.3.3. Temporal scope
  • 1.2.3.4. Geographic scale
  • 1.2.3.5. Unit of analysis
  • 1.2.3.6. Variable inclusion
  • 1.2.3.7. Social
  • 1.2.3.8. Economic
  • 1.2.3.9. Environmental
  • 1.2.3.10. Built environment
  • 1.2.3.11. Institutional
  • 1.2.3.12. Hazard
  • 1.2.3.13. Data sources
  • 1.2.4. Conclusion
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 1.3: Damaging flood risk in the Portuguese municipalities
  • 1.3.1. Introduction
  • 1.3.2. Study area
  • 1.3.3. Data and methods
  • 1.3.3.1. Flood susceptibility
  • 1.3.3.2. Historical record of flood losses
  • 1.3.3.3. Social vulnerability
  • 1.3.3.4. Multivariate analysis
  • 1.3.3.4.1. Cluster analysis
  • 1.3.3.4.2. Principal components analysis
  • 1.3.4. Results
  • 1.3.4.1. Components of the municipal flood disasters
  • 1.3.4.1.1. Flood susceptibility
  • 1.3.4.1.2. Historical flood losses
  • 1.3.4.1.3. Social vulnerability
  • 1.3.4.2. Understanding the contexts of municipal flood disasters
  • 1.3.4.2.1. Cross-tabulation
  • 1.3.4.2.2. Cluster classification
  • 1.3.4.2.3. Principal component analysis
  • 1.3.5. Discussion
  • 1.3.6. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Chapter 1.4: Social vulnerability to drought in rural Malawi
  • 1.4.1. Introduction

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