Handbook on climate change and disasters. / edited by Rajib Shaw.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Shaw, Rajob, editor.

Series:

Elgar Handbooks in Energy, the Environment and Climate Change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (710 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

This comprehensive Handbook assesses the escalation of global natural disasters as a result of climate change. Examining the complex interplay of human and natural activities, it highlights the growing vulnerability of people and communities in developing countries to floods, landslides, cyclones, heat waves and wildfires.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Preface

PART I OVERVIEW AND GLOBAL FRAMEWORKS

1. Concepts and recent developments on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction

2. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and its implications to risk reduction

3. Paris Agreement and its implications to disaster risk reduction

4. Sendai Framework and its implementation

PART II CLIMATE RELATED HAZARD AND STATE OF ART KNOWLEDGE

5. Climate change and flood risk reduction measures

6. Climate change and landslide risk reduction

7. Climate change and cyclone risk reduction

8. Climate change and drought risk reduction

9. Climate change, heat wave and health impacts

10. Wildfire risk management under climate change

11. GLOF and climate change

PART III STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT

12. Private sector roles in climate change adaptation

13. Science, technology, innovation and climate change adaptation

14. Role of non-government organizations in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction

15. Reviewing the media's climate change beat

16. Role of youth and young professionals in climate change and disaster risk reduction

17. Local government roles in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction

PART IV CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES

18. Adaptation governance

19. Urban-rural transect and ecosystem perspectives for mitigating landscape scale disasters: lessons from Visakhapatnam, India

20. Urban vulnerability and resilience in the face of natural hazards: a critical conceptual review

21. Gender, inclusion, climate change and disasters

22. Ecosystem-based risk reduction in policy and practice

23. Prospects of climigration for the Pacific Islands.

24. Post-disaster recovery trajectories in Nagapattinam and Kuttanad regions of India: how representations of communities shape their recovery outcomes

25. Housing and post-disaster recovery

26. Climate and disaster risk reduction education

27. Community-based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

28. Microfinance and climate change: Global and Bangladesh perspectives

29. Supply chain management, disaster and climate change

30. Education sector interventions for sustainable society through climate change adaptation and disaster resilience

31. Health, climate change and disaster risks

32. Climate-resilient agricultural practices in Bangladesh

33. Sea level change and the livelihood security of coastal communities in Tamil Nadu, Peninsular India

34. Disaster nursing and adaptation to climate change

35. Integrating disaster and climate change in risk sensitive land use planning

36. Recovery: the role of children in recovery processes and disaster risk reduction - the case of the South-Indian floods in 2015

37. 5-Dimensional climate+scenario model to countermeasure urban heat island effect

38. Mountain ecosystems and climate change

39. Decadal assessment of mangroves of the Sundarban region under changing climate in Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) delta

40. Impact-based risk forecasting and hydro-meteorological disasters

PART V EMERGING ISSUES AND INNOVATION

41. The path to urban sustainability with technology: the case of a Japanese smart town

42. International coalitions for climate and disaster resilient infrastructure

43. An integrated governance approach towards a water-energy-food nexus and climate change

44. Climate-smart and nutrition-sensitive aquaculture in Odisha, India: a new horizon in sustainability, adaptation, and mitigation.

45. Society 5.0 and inclusive resilience

46. New emergency communications: implication to climate hazards

47. Risk communication: analytical perspective from the lens of science, COVID-19 and climate change

48. COVID-19, transportation and climate change

49. Network governance for implementing the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

50. Situational awareness for all: from sensing to collaboration using real-time communication in cities affected by climate change

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Shaw, Rajib Handbook on Climate Change and Disasters

ISBN:

9781800371613