Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction

• Hardcover | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 4
• The importance of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is increasing due, in part, to recent major disasters throughout t... Lees meer

Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction

• Hardcover | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 10
• Communities are at the core of disaster risk reduction (DRR), and community based approaches are getting increasing focus in national DRR plans. In th... Lees meer

The Tourism-Disaster-Conflict Nexus

• Hardcover | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 19
• This volume sheds light on the complex linkages between tourism, disaster and conflict. In many countries, tourism crises have been precipitated by na... Lees meer

Water Communities

• Hardcover | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 2
• Water is the key to human civilization. Most of the ancient civilization had its roots to river basins, where people-water interaction was the key asp... Lees meer

Water Insecurity

• Hardcover | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 13
• It has been estimated that globally, 1.2 billion people live with acute shortage of water. Water scarcity, particularly in south and south-east Asian ... Lees meer

Risks and Conflicts

• Hardcover | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 14
• Communities affected by natural disasters are often stigmatized as being passive with regard to disaster prevention, mitigation and adaptation, waitin... Lees meer

Ecosystem-Based Adaptation

• Hardcover | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 12
• Ecosystems are often examined from a ecological perspective because of the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Ecosystems of different ... Lees meer

Droughts in Asian Monsoon Region

• Hardcover | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 8
• Drought is a slow-onset disaster. The impacts are invisible and are often reflected as a complex socio-economic phenomenon. Due to changes in the clim... Lees meer

Urban Risk Reduction

• Paperback | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 1
• As cities all over the world have urbanized rapidly after the industrial revolution, most cities have confronted environmental problems such as poor a... Lees meer

Disaster Education

• Hardcover | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 7
• Education is the key to risk reduction, be it environmental management or disaster risk reduction, and is a process which needs to be embedded at diff... Lees meer

Recovering from Catastrophic Disaster in Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 18
• Volume 18 of the Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management series looks at how cities and countries recover from catastrophic disasters with... Lees meer

Improving Flood Management, Prediction and Monitoring

• Hardcover | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 20
• Flood risk management requires a multi-disciplinary approach with experts from the fields of health, town planning, civil engineering, computer scienc... Lees meer

Environment Disaster Linkages

• Hardcover | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 9
• Disaster management has historically focused on reactive approaches, but a shift to proactive approaches is crucial for addressing concerns raised by ... Lees meer

Hyogo Framework for Action and Urban Disaster Resilience

• Hardcover | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 16
• We live in a world which continues to experience dramatic suffering and loss of life due to natural hazard. The disaster paradigm has accelerated effo... Lees meer

Integrated Lagoon Fisheries Management

Shimpei Iwasaki, Rajib Shaw

• Hardcover | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 3
• Lagoons are characterized by an essential quality of uncertainty for use in resource management: these are physically vulnerable to various influences... Lees meer

Climate and Disaster Resilience in Cities

• Hardcover | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 6
• One of the emerging reasons for the current trend of increasing impacts of disasters is the unpredictability of natural hazard events coupled with the... Lees meer

Justice, Equity and Emergency Management

• Hardcover | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 25
• Justice, Equity and Emergency Management applies a justice and equity lens across all phases of emergency management, focusing on key topics such as h... Lees meer

Building Resilient Urban Communities

• Hardcover | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 15
• "How do urban communities in Asian cities experience the impacts of urbanisation and climate change? This book throws light on the ongoing processes o... Lees meer

Local Disaster Risk Management in a Changing Climate

• Hardcover | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 17
• "Disasters cause economic as well as human losses. Indeed, economic losses associated directly with disasters have continued at increasing proportions... Lees meer

Climate Change Modeling for Local Adaptation in the Hindu Kush - Himalayan Region

• Hardcover | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 11
• This book presents a portrait of the social advantages and limitations of climate change related modeling in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region. Ph... Lees meer

Urban Risk Reduction

• Hardcover | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 1
• As cities all over the world have urbanized rapidly after the industrial revolution, most cities have confronted environmental problems such as poor a... Lees meer

Sustainability Management Strategies and Impact in Developing Countries

• Hardcover | Engels | Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management | nr. 26
• Strategies and Impact in Developing Countries emphasizes the research of sustainability management and strategies in developing countries providing in... Lees meer