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 risk management concerns in dealing with such...

The U.S. government is the world’s largest financial institution, providing credit and assuming risk through diverse activities. But the potential cost and risk of these actions and obligations remain poorly understood and only partially measured. Government budgetary and financial accounting...

Chapter 1. Building in Emergency: Low-Tech Driven Innovations -- Chapter 2. Technologies for Building After Disaster: A Critical Review -- Chapter 3. Beyond Emergency, Toward Circular Design: Building Low Tech -- Chapter 4. Assessing the Circular Potential. Design, Build, Living Reversible --...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Part 1: Setting the Context for Tourism Crisis and Disaster Management -- 1. Introduction to Tourism Crisis and Disaster Management -- 2. Classifying and Understanding Crises and Disasters -- 3. Strategic Crisis and Disaster Planning and...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Part 1: Introduction -- 1. Nature-based Tourism in Peripheral Areas: Introduction / Hall, C. Michael / Boyd, Stephen -- Part 2: Nature-based Tourism in Alpine, Forest and Sub-polar Environments -- 2. Ecotourism and Regional...