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This book provides insight on how disaster risk management can increase the resilience of society to various natural hazards. The multi-dimensionality of resilience and the various different perspectives in regards to disaster risk reduction are taken explicitly into account by providing studies and approaches on different scales and ranging from natural science based methods to social science frameworks. For all chapters, special emphasis is placed on implementation aspects and specifically in regards to the targets and priorities for action laid out in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The chapters provide also a starting point for interested readers on specific issues of resilience and therefore include extensive reference material and important future directions for research.
List of contents
Introduction.- Recognition of Earthquake-Prone Areas for Seismic Hazard Evaluation.- Resilience to volcano- and landslide-related hazards.- Towards Natech Resilient Industries.- Resilience and electricity.- Disaster risk and a household's dynamic asset-formation behavior: Jump control model of household.- Exploring drought resilience through a drought risk management lens in Austria.- Social Psychological Perspectives on Preparedness Theory and Practice: Facilitating Resilience.- Measuring and building community disaster resilience: essential for achieving Sendai.- Building the Evidence Base to Achieve the Sendai Framework for DRR Goals.- Fiscal resilience and building back better: A global analysis for disaster risk reduction strategies.- Discussion and Outlook for the Future.
About the author
Muneta Yokomatsu is an associate professor of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, and a guest research scholar with the Risk and Resilience (RISK) program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). He is a treasurer of the Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM) Society, and an editor in chief of the Journal of Natural Disaster Science (JNDS).
Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler is a senior research scholar with the Risk and Resilience (RISK) program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and leader of the Risk Analysis and Modeling Group. A member of the Board of Directors of the Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM) Society and the Board of Directors of the Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI), he is also a lecturer at the University of Vienna, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and the Graduate School at the Institute for Advanced Study in Pavia.
