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Building resilience to the world¿s increasingly damaging environmental hazards has become a priority. This book considers the scientific advances which have been made around the world to enhance this resilience.
List of contents
Preface
Dennis J. Parker
Introduction: Disaster resilience: developing a challenged science
Dennis J. Parker
1. Using vulnerability and resilience concepts to advance climate change adaptation
Erin P. Joakim, Linda Mortsch and Greg Oulahen
2. Foundations of community disaster resilience: well-being, identity, services and capitals
Scott B. Miles
3. Temporal and spatial change in disaster resilience in US counties, 2010–2015
Susan Cutter and Sahar Derakhshan
4. Assessing community resilience: mapping the community rating system (CRS) against the 6C-4R frameworks
Ajita Atreya and Howard Kunreuther
5. Research on disaster resilience of earthquake-stricken areas in Longmenshan fault zone based on GIS
Bin Liu, Xudong Chen, Zhongu Zhou, Min Tang and Shimming Li
6. Coping and resilience in riverine Bangladesh
Parvin Sultana, Paul M. Thompson and Anna Wesselink
7. Urbanisation and disaster risk: the resilience of the Nigerian community in Auckland to natural hazards
Osamuede Odiase, Suzanne Wilkinson and Andreas Neef
8. The French Cat’ Nat’ system: post-flood recovery and resilience issues
Bernard Barraquéa and Annabelle Moatty
9. Stakeholder participation in building resilience to disasters in a changing climate
Pauline Aldunce, Ruth Bellin, John Handmer and Mark Howden
10. How does social learning facilitate urban disaster resilience? A systematic review
Qingxia Zhang, Junyan Hu, Xuping Song, Zhihong Li, Kehy Yang and Yongzhong Sha
11. Local government, political decentralisation and resilience to natural hazard-associated disasters
Vassilis Tseliosa and Emma Tompkins
About the author
Dennis Parker is Professor at the Flood Hazard Research Centre, Middlesex University, UK. His research has focused on reducing the natural hazard losses across the globe. Dennis lives in Hertfordshire and has two daughters and six grandchildren.
Edmund Penning-Rowsell OBE founded the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University in 1970. He has more than 40 years’ experience of research and teaching in the flood hazard field, analysing floods and investment in flood alleviation, river management, water planning, and landscape assessment. Edmund lives in Oxfordshire and is also a member of the Oxford Water Security Network. He has two daughters and four grandchildren.
Summary
Building resilience to the world’s increasingly damaging environmental hazards has become a priority. This book considers the scientific advances which have been made around the world to enhance this resilience.
