Disaster Risk and Vulnerability
Mitigation Through Mobilizing Communities and Partnerships
1st Edition
Published on 14. May 2014
317 pages
978-0-7735-8706-9 (ISBN)
Description
Why communities and institutions need to work together to reduce disaster risk.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal, QC
United States
Edition type
Digital original
File size
8,89 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-8706-9 (9780773587069)
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C. Emdad Haque | David Etkin
Disaster Risk and Vulnerability
Mitigation Through Mobilizing Communities and Partnerships
Book
04/2012
McGill-Queen's University Press
€45.00
Article not available at the moment
C. Emdad Haque | David Etkin
Disaster Risk and Vulnerability
Mitigation Through Mobilizing Communities and Partnerships
Book
04/2012
McGill-Queen's University Press
€154.50
Article not available at the moment
Persons
C. Emdad Haque is professor at the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Manitoba.
David Etkin is assistant professor and coordinator of the Program in Emergency Management at York University.
David Etkin is assistant professor and coordinator of the Program in Emergency Management at York University.
Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction - Dealing with Disaster Risk and Vulnerability: People, Community, and Resilience Perspectives
- Part one - Conceptual Considerations in Risk and Vulnerability Reduction
- 1 - Understanding Uncertainty and Reducing Vulnerability: Lessons from Resilience Thinking
- 2 - Community-Level Emergency Management: Placing Social Capital
- 3 - Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction: Realizing the Primacy of Community
- Part two - International Perspectives on Disaster Risk Management and Public Policies
- 4 - The Intersection of Policies on Disaster Management, Climate Change, and International Development
- 5 - Mountain Hazards and the Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems: Examples from India and Canada
- 6 - Grassroots Participation versus Dictated Partnership: Anatomy of the Turkish Risk Management Reality
- 7 - Disaster Management and Public Policies in Bangladesh: Institutional Partnerships in Cyclone Hazards Mitigation and Response
- Part three - Natural Hazards and Emergency Management in Canada
- 8 - Emergency Management Education in Canada: A View from the Crossroads
- 9 - Public and Expert Knowledge and Perception of Climate Change-Induced Disaster Risk: Canadian Prairie Perspectives
- 10 - Natural Hazard Identification, Mapping, and Vulnerability Assessment in Atlantic Canada: Progress and Challenges
- 11 - Infrastructure Failure Interdependencies in Extreme Events: The 1998 Ice Storm
- Contributors
