The world is experiencing more frequent, deadly and costly disasters. Disasters are increasingly uncertain and complex … of disasters requires comprehensive, systematic and multi-disciplinary analysis. This paper introduces recent … multidisciplinary work on resilience, disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate change adaptation (CCA) and adaptive governance and then …

The year 2010 through 2011 witnessed a number of disasters such as floods in Pakistan and Eastern Europe and …

. When disasters occur, much attention is given to the direct disaster impacts as well as relief and recovery operations … change induced by disasters. Change, as distinct from impacts, encompasses formal and informal responses to disaster events … and their direct and indirect impacts. While smaller disasters do not often lead to significant changes in societies and …

Resilience is widely used from a variety of research perspectives; however, community resilience in particular is … applied to a number of natural hazards and disasters-related studies, programs, and activities. It is also acknowledged that … its measurement is cumbersome but not impossible. The prime objective of this paper is to measure the community resilience …

2011 for an evaluation of a disaster preparedness teaching resource, to examine how these disasters impacted individuals … disaster education to children after disasters. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 …

requirement for research into resilience also emerges, to prepare communities to cope with disasters; this is the focus of the …Saudi Arabia has in recent years experienced frequent disasters, including flooding, epidemics, and dust storms, while … the risk of disasters in this interesting socio-cultural and regional environment not already covered by existing …

integration in disaster management. This must be done against a background of ever-increasing numbers of disasters. The initiating … one of (in)effective deployment than major deficiencies. Social analyses suggest the scope of today’s disasters follows … anatomies of the social and physical conditions of disasters. They demonstrate and trace out the interplay of environmental …