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Title External interventions for disaster risk reduction : impacts on local communities / Imon Chowdhooree, Shams Mansoor Ghani, editors
Published Singapore : Springer, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Advances in 21st century human settlements, 2198-2546
Advances in 21st century human settlements.
Contents External Interventions for Enhancing Community Resilience: An Overview of Planning Paradigms -- Lessons Learned from Interventions of External Organizations in Disaster Management: A Case Study of Floods in Kalutara, Sri Lanka -- Dependency on External Supports: An Addition to Community Vulnerability -- Sustainable Development through Post-Disaster Reconstruction: A Unique Example in Sri Lanka -- Local Community Engagement for Adaptation to Future Challenges in The Pilot Flood Detention Area of Thailand -- Traditional Practices, Communities Aspirations, and Reconstructed End Products: Analyzing the Post-Sidr Reconstruction in the Coastal Region of Bangladesh -- Designing Spaces with Victims of Humanitarian Crisis: Action Research on Spaces for Children at Rohingya Camps in Bangladesh -- Disaster Risk Reduction in Cities: Towards A New Normal -- Disaster Risk Reduction in Cities: Towards A New Normal -- Rethinking Roles of Local Non-Governmental Organizations (LNGO) in Managing Disaster Risks in Historic Neighborhoods: Experiences from the City of Lagos, Nigeria -- A Complexity Approach for Reducing Disaster Risks for Marginalized Urban Populations: Comparing DRR Interventions across Four Cities -- Adaptation and Development for Mitigating Impacts of Climate Change and Climate Extremes -- Public and Private Sector Interventions in Post-Disaster Resettlement: A Case Study of Model Villages in Pakistan -- Effectiveness of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) Training Programs: Views and Voices from Barisal Division, a Coastal Region in Bangladesh -- To 'Float or 'Not: Cases of Amphibious Housing and Their Impacts on Vulnerable Communities of Jamaica
Summary This book presents a case study-based analysis of the consequences of external interventions, critically evaluating them from community perspectives. Communities - from rural to urban, and around the world - that are experiencing disasters and changes in climatic variables can perceive the associated risks and evaluate the impacts of interventions. Accordingly, community perspectives, including their perceptions, concerns, awareness, realizations, reactions and expectations, represent a valuable resource. The case-based analysis of impacts on communities can provide a 'means of learning from the experiences of others, thus expanding professionals knowledge base, especially regarding disaster mitigation and climate change adaptation practices in varied settings. This book offers valuable insights and lessons learned, in an effort to promote and guide innovative changes in the current planning, management and governance of human settlements, helping them face the future challenges of a changing environment
Subject Hazard mitigation.
Sustainable development.
sustainable development.
Environmental monitoring.
Regional & area planning.
Climate change.
Geographical information systems (GIS) & remote sensing.
Natural disasters.
Science -- Environmental Science.
Political Science -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
Science -- Global Warming & Climate Change.
Technology & Engineering -- Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems.
Nature -- Natural Disasters.
Hazard mitigation
Sustainable development
Form Electronic book
Author Chowdhooree, Imon
Ghani, Shams Monsoor
ISBN 9789811549489
9811549486