Environment disaster linkages / edited by Rajib Shaw, Phong Tran.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shaw, Rajib.

Tran, Phong.

Series:

Community, environment and disaster risk management ; v. 9.

Community, environment and disaster risk management, 2040-7262 ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental disasters--Forecasting.

Environmental disasters.

Environmental disasters--Prevention.

Emergency management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 in the links between the environment and the hazards. This is the first book to focus on explicit linkages between the changing environment and disasters and suggests better approaches towards disaster management. A ready-reference for field practitioners it combines academic research and field practices and covers areas such as: elements of environmental entry (water-related disasters, desertification and land degradation, typhoon risk management, catastrophic flood and forest management, and coastal issues); impacts of environment and disaster (livelihoods impacts, human health: post-disaster waste management); and strategies, planning and the way forward (climate change adaptation as a planning tool, urban planning and land use planning, mangrove management as a coastal planning tool, and environment disaster education and risk communication).

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9786613524249

9781280120381

128012038X

9780857248664

0857248669

OCLC:

778081314