Description: Disaster Resilience and Sustainability : Adaptation for Sustainable Development, Paperback by Shrestha, Sangam (EDT); Djalante, Riyanti (EDT); Shaw, Rajib (EDT); Pal, Indrajit (EDT), ISBN 0323851959, ISBN-13 9780323851954, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
Disasters undermine societal well-being, causing loss of lives and damage to social and economic infrastructures.Disaster resilience is central to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, especiallyinregions where extreme inequality combines with the increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters.
Disaster risk reduction and resilience requires participation of wide array of stakeholders ranging from academicians to policy makers to disaster managers. Disaster Resilient Cities: Adaptation for Sustainable Development offers evidence-based, problem-solving techniques from social, natural, engineering and other disciplinary perspectives. It connects data, research, conceptual work with practical cases on disaster risk management, capturing the multi-sectoral aspects of disaster resilience, adaptation strategy and sustainability. Th links disaster risk management with sustainable development under a common umbrella, showing that effective disaster resilience strategies and practices lead to achieving broader sustainable development goals.
- Provides foundational knowledge on integrated disaster risk reduction and management to show how resilience and its associated concept such as adaptive and transformative strategies can foster sustainable development
- Brings together disaster risk reduction and resilience scientists, policy-makers and practitioners from different disciplines
- Case studies on disaster risk management from natural science, social science, engineering and other relevant disciplinary perspectives
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Book Title: Disaster Resilience and Sustainability : Adaptation for Sustainab
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Name: Disaster Resilience and Sustainability : Adaptation for Sustainable Development
Language: English
Publisher: Elsevier
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: Human Geography, Sociology / General, Sociology / Urban
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Social Science
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Riyanti Djalante
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
