Environment disaster linkages
Disaster management has historically focused on reactive approaches, but a shift to proactive approaches is crucial for addressing concerns raised by the changing environment. A prime reason for the absence of proactive approaches in disaster/hazard management is the uncertainty or ambiguity present...
| Άλλοι συγγραφείς: | , |
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Έκδοση: |
Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald,
2012.
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| Σειρά: | Community, environment and disaster risk management ;
v. 9. |
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- ch. 1. Environment disaster linkages : an overview / Phong Tran and Rajib Shaw
- ch. 2. Water : water, communities and disasters : inter-linkages / Rajib Shaw
- ch. 3. Air : typhoon and tornado risk management / Yukio Tamura ... [et al.]
- ch. 4. Land : proactive management of drought and its derived disasters in Mongolia / Masato Shinoda
- ch. 5. Forest : catastrophic flood and forest management in Vietnam / Phong Tran and Rajib Shaw
- ch. 6. Coast : coast and communities : the linkages / Rajib Shaw and Ramaswamy Krishnamurthy
- ch. 7. Urban : urban climate resilience as a planning tool in Vietnam / Phong Tran and Rajib Shaw
- ch. 8. Livelihoods : linking livelihoods and ecosystems for enhanced disaster management / Noralene Uy, Rajib Shaw and Yukiko Takeuchi
- ch. 9. Employment : interrelationship of disaster and employment from the perspective of urban-rural linkages in India / Nitin Srivastava and Rajib Shaw
- ch. 10. Health : impacts of salinity, arsenic and drought in south-western Bangladesh / M. A. Abedin, Umma Habiba and Rajib Shaw
- ch. 11. Waste : disaster waste management : an overview / Muralee Thummarukudy
- ch. 12. Land use : urban and land use planning for disaster resilience / Jonas Joerin and Rajib Shaw
- ch. 13. Ecosystem : values of the mangrove ecosystem of Gujarat, India and its socio-economic implications / R. Parthasarathy and Soumini Raja
- ch. 14. Eco-villages : can eco-villages be a build back better strategy after tsunami disasters? / Miwa Abe, Rajib Shaw and Yukiko Takeuchi
- ch. 15. Education : climate change issues in education sectors : an environmental entry point of risk reduction / Rajib Shaw and Phong Tran
- ch. 16. Technology : information and communication technologies (ICT), water and climate change : Asian priorities / Rajib Shaw
- ch. 17. Way forward : environment disaster linkages : a way forward / Rajib Shaw, Phong Tran.
