Multi-Hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building
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Multi-Hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building

Cross Cutting Issues

  1. 412 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Multi-Hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building

Cross Cutting Issues

About this book

Multi-hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building: Cross Cutting Issues presents multi-disciplinary issues facing disaster risk reduction and sustainable development, focusing on various dimensions of existing and future risk scenarios and highlighting concerted efforts of scientific communities to find new adaptation methods. Disaster risk reduction and resilience requires participation of a wide array of stakeholders, ranging from academicians to policy makers to disaster managers. The book offers evidence-based, problem-solving techniques from social, natural, engineering, and other perspectives, and connects data, research, and conceptual work with practical cases on disaster risk management to capture multi-sectoral aspects of disaster resilience, adaptation strategy, and sustainability.- Provides foundational knowledge on integrated disaster vulnerability and resilience building- Brings together disaster risk reduction and resilience scientists, policy-makers, and practitioners from different disciplines- Includes case studies on disaster resilience and sustainable development from a multi-disciplinary perspective

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Yes, you can access Multi-Hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building by Indrajit Pal,Rajib Shaw in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Economic Theory. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Elsevier
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780323956826
eBook ISBN
9780323956833
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Economic Theory
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. List of contributors
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. List of Tables
  8. Chapter 1 : An overview of vulnerability and resilience building in the Asia Pacific region
  9. Chapter 2 : Opportunities and challenges farmers face when Using indigenous knowledge to adapt to climate change in sustainable development in Mekong Delta, Vietnam (A case study in An Giang province)
  10. Chapter 3 : Development of a disaster and climate risk ATLAS in Bangladesh: Methodology for quantification of risk
  11. Chapter 4 : Sustainability assessment methodology for residential building in urban area—a case study
  12. Chapter 5 : Comparison of the vulnerability assessment of step-back configuration and set-back configuration structures on hill slopes
  13. Chapter 6 : A proposal for disaster risk management in the local level: lesson learned from earthquake prone area in Sengon village, Central Java, Indonesia
  14. Chapter 7 : Community resilience for disaster risk reduction by engaging local governance in Bihar (India)
  15. Chapter 8 : A working strategy for preparedness in Kerala schools: a suggestive study
  16. Chapter 9 : Integrating indigenous knowledge with science to suitably tackle disasters due to climate and environmental change: an overview of the progress and way forward
  17. Chapter 10 : Target E of Sendai Framework: current status and how to complete by 2022 end
  18. Chapter 11 : Predict the critical load of rectangular concrete-filled steel tube columns with ultra high strength concrete with software ANSYS
  19. Chapter 12 : Time-dependent reliability system of the continuous steel beam I-shapes with corrosion damage
  20. Chapter 13 : An extensive study on damage assessment of earthquake-affected buildings in Nepal
  21. Chapter 14 : Modeling soil erosion: Samanalawewa watershed, Sri Lanka
  22. Chapter 15 : Efficient earthquake intensity measures for probabilistic seismic demand models of skewed RC bridges
  23. Chapter 16 : Time-frequency analysis of ground motions from the 1999 Chamoli earthquake
  24. Chapter 17 : Mainstreaming disaster risk management technical and vocational education and training (DRM-TVET) program in higher education institutions: flexible ladderized capacity building model amid COVID-19
  25. Chapter 18 : Extreme flood analysis for Lower Indus Basin, Pakistan study under disaster risk reduction
  26. Chapter 19 : Change in cropping pattern and soil health in relation to climate change and salinity in coastal Bangladesh
  27. Chapter 20 : Strengthening capacity for disaster resilience of rural women in Fiji
  28. Chapter 21 : Foundation of indigenous knowledge theory for disaster risk reduction
  29. Chapter 22 : Critical infrastructure resilience in Eastern Economic Corridor of Thailand—a review
  30. Index
  31. A