Abstract:

The book presents a multi-disciplinary issues facing disaster risk reduction and sustainable development, focusing on various dimensions of existing and future risk scenarios and highlighting concerted efforts of scientific communities to find new adaptation methods. Disaster risk reduction and resilience requires participation of a wide array of stakeholders, ranging from academicians to policy makers to disaster managers. The book provides foundational knowledge on integrated disaster vulnerability and resilience building. It brings together disaster risk reduction and resilience scientists, policy-makers, and practitioners from different disciplines and includes case studies on disaster resilience and sustainable development from a multi-disciplinary perspective.