1st Edition
Disaster Management International Lessons in Risk Reduction, Response and Recovery
1. Introduction:Who What and Why?, Editors. Part 1: Prevention and Risk Reduction 2. HAZARD, VULNERABILITY, CAPACITY, RISK AND PARTICIPATION, Ben Wisner, Ilan Kelman and JC Gaillard. 3. GENDER ASPECTS OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT, Maureen Fordham and Lourdes Meyreles 4. COMMUNITY-BASED DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT, Emmanuel M. Luna. 5. PEOPLE-CENTRED EARLY WARNING, Juan-Carlos Villagran de Leon. 6. DISASTER EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS, Rajib Shaw, Yukiko Takeuchi and Koichi Shiwaku. 7.MANY STRONG VOICES FOR CLIMATE CHANGE EDUCATION: EXAMPLES FROM BELIZE AND TIMOR-LESTE, Ilan Kelman, Jessica Mercer, and Marianne Karlsson Part 2: Response and Recovery 8. MANAGING INFRASTRUCTURE, ENVIRONMENT AND DISASTER RISK, Ana Maria Cruz 9. EMERGENCY AND DISASTER PLANNING, David Alexander 10. COMMON MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT, Alejandro López-Carresi 11. HEALTH ASPECTS OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT, Joachim Kreysler 1 2 DISASTER INSURANCE FOR THE POOR, Mihir Bhatt, Tommy Reynolds and Mehul Pandya 13. POST-DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING: INTRODUCTORY NOTES ON ITS CHALLENGES AND POTENTIALS, Camillo Boano Part 3: Regional Perspectives 14.. Experiences from SUB-SAHARAN Africa, Dewald van Niekerk and Ben Wisner 15. DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN: FOUR DECADES OF EVOLUTION AND CHANGE, 1970 TO 2010, Allan Lavell and Tania López-Marrero 16. DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC: EMERGING TRENDS AND DIRECTIONS, Krishna S. Vatsa 17. INTEGRATING PEOPLE’S CAPACITIES IN DISASTER RISK REDUCTION THROUGH PARTICIPATORY MAPPING, Jake Rom D. Cadag and J.C. Gaillard 18. A KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION TOOL FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION INCLUDING CLIMATE CHANGE, Ilan Kelman and Jessica Mercer 19. CONCLUSION: ADDRESSING ALL VULNERABILITIES, Editors & Members of Practitioner Advisory Panel
Biography
Alejandro López-Carresi is founder and director of CEDEM Centre for Disaster and Emergency Management in Madrid, Spain.
Maureen Fordham is Principal Lecturer and Enterprise Fellow at the Department of Geography, Northumbria University, UK.
Ben Wisner, who has worked in development and hazards for 47 years, is a research affiliate at University College London, UK.
Ilan Kelman is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo (CICERO) in Norway.
JC Gaillard is an Associate Professor in the School of Environment at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
"The book is written for communities and social practitioners to understand the whole process of disaster management. It is reassuring to learn that laws to combat disasters are introduced in almost all countries and are backed up by national action plans and capacity building."
Trupti Patel, Institution of Civil Engineers
