Disaster Risk Reduction: Community Resilience and Responses [Hardcover]

This book discusses the interconnected, complex and emerging risks in todays societies and deliberates on the various aspects of disaster risk reduction strategies especially through community resilience and responses. It consists of selected papers presented at the World Congress on Disaster Management, which focused on community resilience and responses towards disaster risk reduction based on South Asian experiences, and closely examines the coordinated research activities involving all stakeholders, especially the communities at risk. Further, it narrates the experiences of disaster risk-reduction in different communities that have policy implications for mitigation of future disaster risks in the societies affected by these types of disasters. Written from the social science perspective to disasters rather than an engineering approach, the book helps development and governance institutions to prioritize disasters as a problem of development rather than being parallel to it.

Chapter 1: The struggles of women: An Experience from the flood prone area.- Chapter 2: Innovative use of Technology (GIS) forStructural Inequality and Disaster Risk Reduction: An Indian Experience Disaster Risk Reduction- a case study.- Chapter 3: Bridging the Gap Between Academicians & Bureaucrats- the NYSAF Way.- Chapter 4: Recovery after Disasters- Problems and Prospects: The Case of Koslanda -Meeriyabedda Landslide in Sri Lanka.- Chapter 5: Indigenous Knowledge and Practices in Disaster Management: Experie.- Chapter 6: Nces of the Coastal People of Bangladesh.- Chapter 7: Mainstreaming Nuclear Disaster Risk Reduction in India.- Chapter 8: Integrating disaster management content in to social l£‰