-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis. Additionally, it explores the role of resilience in relation to the co-benefits of disaster …

– offering detailed descriptions and analyses of some 25 historical cases (Three Mile Island nuclear accident, Bhopal disaster …, Challenger Space Shuttle explosion, Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster …

There has been some degree of reluctance in the past to consider disaster risk management within the mainstream of … adaptation to climate variability and climate change. However, there is now wide recognition of the need to incorporate disaster … with disaster risk management. It showcases projects and other initiatives in this field that are being undertaken in both …

Chapter 1. Strategic Disaster Management in Asia: An Introduction -- Chapter 2. Diaster Management in the Five Year … -- Chapter 5. Disaster Management and Role of Armed Forces: Critical Analysis of Reactive Disaster Management in India -- Chapter … Reduction Strategy in Disaster Management in Sri Lanka -- Chapter 7. Effectiveness of Administrative Preparedness: A Case Study …

earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons are common, with the Fukushima nuclear disaster as an outstanding case of this link between … urban life. Unsafety from a disaster in one place increases uncertainty elsewhere, presenting urgent issues in all nations … authorities combined to create the three-fold disaster, in which technological, organizational, and governmental dysfunction have …

Why aren’t we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events? This book argues that … disasters, and perceive the return on investment as uncertain - only realised if a somewhat unlikely disaster event actually … beyond only avoided losses (the first dividend) to the wider benefits gained independently of whether or not the disaster …

This study aims at analyzing the resilience of Indonesia from two aspects: one is was natural disaster and the other is …

Chapter 1. Land Use and Disaster Governance in Asia: An Introduction -- Chapter 2. NAPSIPAG Is Ten Years Old: An Agenda … Security: New Challenges for Malaysia -- Part II: Disaster Management -- Chapter 7. Bangladesh: Natural Disaster Risk … of Disability Issue in Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy: Implications on Human Security and Social Cohesion -- Chapter 10 …