Whilst it is impossible to make resistant urban growth, resilience is becoming more widely accept...

Disasters cause economic as well as human losses, and the magnitude of this is ever increasing. T...

The March 11 disaster in 2011, known as the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, caused exten...

The book outlines the climate change adaptation (CCA) actions in Bangladesh drawing examples and ...

As cities all over the world have urbanized rapidly after the industrial revolution, most cities ...

The March 11 disaster in 2011, known as the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, caused exten...

In a world which continues to experience dramatic suffering as a result of natural hazards, local...

This book presents the health emergency and disaster risk management (H-EDRM) research landscape,...

This is the first academic publication to highlight the linkages between Climate Change Adaptatio...

This book presents key lessons from community-based risk-reduction practices in Japan, a country ...

Deals with the topic of Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR). This book provides an ov...

This book provides an analytical discussion of the status of disaster risk reduction and governan...