Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk ReductionBen Wisner, J.C. Gaillard, Ilan Kelman The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future development of conceptual, theoretical and practical approaches as well as empirical knowledge and available tools. Organized into five inter-related sections, this Handbook contains sixty-five contributions from leading scholars. Section one situates hazards and disasters in their broad political, cultural, economic, and environmental context. Section two contains treatments of potentially damaging natural events/phenomena organized by major earth system. Section three critically reviews progress in responding to disasters including warning, relief and recovery. Section four addresses mitigation of potential loss and prevention of disasters under two sub-headings: governance, advocacy and self-help, and communication and participation. Section five ends with a concluding chapter by the editors. The engaging international contributions reflect upon the politics and policy of how we think about and practice applied hazard research and disaster risk reduction. This Handbook provides a wealth of interdisciplinary information and will appeal to students and practitioners interested in Geography, Environment Studies and Development Studies. |
Contents
Human Rights and Disaster | |
Violent Conflict Natural Hazards and Disaster | |
Children Youth and Disaster | |
Elderly People and Disaster | |
Caste Ethnicity Religious Affiliation and Disaster | |
Introduction to Part III | |
Early Warning Principles and Systems | |
Preparedness Warning and Evacuation | |
Alejandro LópezCarresi | |
From Damage and Needs Assessments to Relief | |
Culture Hazard and Disaster | |
Knowledge and Disaster Risk Reduction | |
Religious Interpretations of Disaster | |
Hazards and Disasters Represented in Film | |
Hazards and Disasters Represented in Music | |
Hazards Risk and Urbanisation | |
Disaster Risk and Sustainable Development | |
Introduction to Part II | |
Data Sources On Hazards | |
Tools for Identifying Hazards | |
Hazard Risk and Climate Change | |
Coastal Storm | |
Thunderstorm and Tornado | |
Flood | |
Extreme Heat and Cold | |
Wildfire | |
Landslide and other Mass Movements | |
Volcanic Eruption | |
Soil Erosion and Contamination | |
Human Epidemic | |
Livestock Epidemic | |
Plant Disease Pests and Erosion of Biodiversity | |
Hazards from Space | |
Disability and Disaster | |
Gender Sexuality and Disaster | |
Health and Disaster | |
Food Security and Disaster | |
Settlement and Shelter Reconstruction | |
Recovery | |
SocioEconomic Recovery | |
Introduction to Part IV | |
International Planning Systems for Disaster | |
National Planning and Disaster | |
Local Government and Disaster | |
Urban and Regional Planning and Disaster | |
Financial Mechanisms for Disaster Risk | |
Economic Development Policy and Disaster Risk | |
Protection of Infrastructure | |
Earthquake | |
Social Protection and Disaster | |
Community Action and Disaster | |
Civil Society and Disaster | |
University Researchs Role in Reducing Disaster Risk | |
Education and Disaster | |
Media Communication and Disasters | |
Challenging Risk has the Left Foot Stepped Forward? | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction Ben Wisner,J.C. Gaillard,Ilan Kelman Limited preview - 2012 |
The Routledge Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction Benjamin Wisner,J. C. Gaillard,Ilan Kelman No preview available - 2012 |