Land Use Management in Disaster Risk Reduction Practice and Cases from a Global Perspective /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Banba, Michiko (Editor), Shaw, Rajib (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Disaster Risk Reduction, Methods, Approaches and Practices,
• Subjects: Geography.; Natural disasters.; Urban geography.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Natural Hazards.

This book provides a wide range of studies on methods of assessing natural disaster risks and reducing those risks in the context of land use. A major benefit of the book is that it presents extensive research and practices from interdisciplinary perspectives through case studies of land use managem...