Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Uitto, Juha I. (Editor), Shaw, Rajib (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Disaster Risk Reduction, Methods, Approaches and Practices,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Climate change.; Natural disasters.; Urban geography.; Sustainable development.; Earth Sciences.; Natural Hazards.; Sustainable Development.; Climate Change Management and Policy.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).

This book focuses on exploring the linkages between natural disasters and sustainable development at the global, regional, and national levels. Disasters and development are closely related, yet the disciplinary silos prevail and there is little communication and cooperation between the disaster man...