Citizen Science Reducing Risk And Building Resilience To Natural Hazards
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Author |
: Jonathan D. Paul |
Publisher |
: Frontiers Media SA |
Total Pages |
: 188 |
Release |
: 2020-01-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9782889634019 |
ISBN-13 |
: 2889634019 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Citizen Science: Reducing Risk and Building Resilience to Natural Hazards by : Jonathan D. Paul
Author |
: Gérard Hutter |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2021-07-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783658337025 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3658337028 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Building Resilience to Natural Hazards in the Context of Climate Change by : Gérard Hutter
Urban resilience and building resilience are “hot topics” of research and practice on sustainability in the context of climate change. The edited volume advances the “state of art” of urban resilience research through focusing on three important processes of building resilience: knowledge integration, implementation, and learning. In the volume, knowledge integration primarily refers to the combination of specialized knowledge domains (e.g., flood risk management and urban planning). Implementation refers to realized specific changes of the building stock and related green, blue and grey infrastructures at local level (e.g., for dealing with rising temperatures and heat waves at the neighborhood scale in cities). Learning requires moving beyond single projects and experiments of resilience to enhance sustainability at city and regional scale. The editors adopt an interdisciplinary approach to this volume of the Springer series on resilience. The volume includes contributions from civil engineering, physical geography, the social sciences, and urban planning.
Author |
: Dennis J. Parker |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 2021-08-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000437454 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000437450 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Environmental Hazards and Resilience by : Dennis J. Parker
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. Although resilience is not new, it is through the idea of resilience that governments, organisations, and communities around the world are now seeking to address the rapidly increasing losses that environmental hazards cause so that fewer lives are lost, and damage is reduced. Alternative ideas and approaches have been helpful in reducing loss, but resilience offers a fresh and potentially effective means of reducing it further. Adopting a scientific approach and scientific evidence is important in applying the resilience idea in hazard mitigation. However, the science of resilience is at an immature stage of development with much discussion about the concept and how it should be understood and interpreted. Building useful theories remains a challenge although some of the building blocks of theory have been developed. More attention has been given to developing indicators and frameworks of resilience which are subsequently applied to measure resilience to hazards such as flooding, earthquake, and climate change. Environmental Hazards and Resilience: Theory and Evidence considers the scientific and theoretical challenges of making progress in applying resilience to environmental hazard mitigation and provides examples from around the world – including the USA, New Zealand, China, Bangladesh and elsewhere. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Environmental Hazards.
Author |
: National Academies |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 2012-12-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309261500 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0309261503 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Disaster Resilience by : National Academies
No person or place is immune from disasters or disaster-related losses. Infectious disease outbreaks, acts of terrorism, social unrest, or financial disasters in addition to natural hazards can all lead to large-scale consequences for the nation and its communities. Communities and the nation thus face difficult fiscal, social, cultural, and environmental choices about the best ways to ensure basic security and quality of life against hazards, deliberate attacks, and disasters. Beyond the unquantifiable costs of injury and loss of life from disasters, statistics for 2011 alone indicate economic damages from natural disasters in the United States exceeded $55 billion, with 14 events costing more than a billion dollars in damages each. One way to reduce the impacts of disasters on the nation and its communities is to invest in enhancing resilience-the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from and more successfully adapt to adverse events. Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative addresses the broad issue of increasing the nation's resilience to disasters. This book defines "national resilience", describes the state of knowledge about resilience to hazards and disasters, and frames the main issues related to increasing resilience in the United States. It also provide goals, baseline conditions, or performance metrics for national resilience and outlines additional information, data, gaps, and/or obstacles that need to be addressed to increase the nation's resilience to disasters. Additionally, the book's authoring committee makes recommendations about the necessary approaches to elevate national resilience to disasters in the United States. Enhanced resilience allows better anticipation of disasters and better planning to reduce disaster losses-rather than waiting for an event to occur and paying for it afterward. Disaster Resilience confronts the topic of how to increase the nation's resilience to disasters through a vision of the characteristics of a resilient nation in the year 2030. Increasing disaster resilience is an imperative that requires the collective will of the nation and its communities. Although disasters will continue to occur, actions that move the nation from reactive approaches to disasters to a proactive stance where communities actively engage in enhancing resilience will reduce many of the broad societal and economic burdens that disasters can cause.
Author |
: Bandana Kar |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 285 |
Release |
: 2019-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351614894 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351614894 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Risk Communication and Community Resilience by : Bandana Kar
Risk communication is crucial to building community resilience and reducing risk from extreme events. True community resilience involves accurate and timely dissemination of risk information to stakeholders. This book examines the policy and science of risk communication in the digital era. Themes include public awareness of risk and public participation in risk communication and resilience building. The first half of the book focuses on conceptual frameworks, components, and the role of citizens in risk communication. The second half examines the role of risk communication in resilience building and provides an overview of some of its challenges in the era of social media. This book looks at the effectiveness of risk communication in socially and culturally diverse communities in the developed and developing world. The interdisciplinary approach bridges academic research and applied policy action. Contributions from Latin America and Asia provide insight into global risk communication at a time when digital technologies have rapidly transformed conventional communication approaches. This book will be of critical interest to policy makers, academicians, and researchers, and will be a valuable reference source for university courses that focus on emergency management, risk communication, and resilience.
Author |
: Gérard Hutter |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3658337036 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783658337032 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Building Resilience to Natural Hazards in the Context of Climate Change by : Gérard Hutter
Urban resilience and building resilience are "hot topics" of research and practice on sustainability in the context of climate change. The edited volume advances the "state of art" of urban resilience research through focusing on three important processes of building resilience: knowledge integration, implementation, and learning. In the volume, knowledge integration primarily refers to the combination of specialized knowledge domains (e.g., flood risk management and urban planning). Implementation refers to realized specific changes of the building stock and related green, blue and grey infrastructures at local level (e.g., for dealing with rising temperatures and heat waves at the neighborhood scale in cities). Learning requires moving beyond single projects and experiments of resilience to enhance sustainability at city and regional scale. The editors adopt an interdisciplinary approach to this volume of the Springer series on resilience. The volume includes contributions from civil engineering, physical geography, the social sciences, and urban planning. The Editors Dr. Gerard Hutter: Since 1996 employee, since 2001 project manager at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Dresden; scientific focus: Strategic planning for environmental risk reduction and climate change adaptation, urban resilience, in particular social resilience. Dr. Marco Neubert: Since 2000 employed at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Dresden, since 2007 project manager; scientific focus: Vulnerability and risk analyses, impact modelling, resilience, climate change impacts, adaptation to climate change, applied geoinformatics (Geographic Information Systems, modelling, remote sensing), landscape ecology and landscape planning. Dr.-Ing. habil. Regine Ortlepp: Since 2013 employed, since 2017 Head of Research Department at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Dresden; scientific focus: Resource efficiency, circular economy, sustainable construction, adaptation measures to climate change, risk assessment, technical and ecological resilience.
Author |
: Sven Fuchs |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2018-03-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108592963 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108592961 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Hazards by : Sven Fuchs
In recent years there has been growing recognition that disaster risk cannot be reduced by focusing solely on physical hazards without considering factors that influence socio-economic impact. Vulnerability: the susceptibility to the damaging impacts of hazards, and resilience: the ability to recover, have become popular concepts in natural hazard and risk management. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the concepts of vulnerability and resilience and their application to natural hazards research. With contributions from both physical and social scientists it provides an interdisciplinary discussion of the different types of vulnerability and resilience, the links between them, and concludes with the remaining challenges and future directions of the field. Examining global case studies from the US coast to Austria, this is a valuable reference for researchers and graduate students working in natural hazard and risk reduction from both the natural and social sciences.
Author |
: David Etkin |
Publisher |
: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages |
: 318 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780773539631 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0773539638 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Disaster Risk and Vulnerability by : David Etkin
Why communities and institutions need to work together to reduce disaster risk.
Author |
: National Academies |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 2012-12-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309261500 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0309261503 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Disaster Resilience by : National Academies
No person or place is immune from disasters or disaster-related losses. Infectious disease outbreaks, acts of terrorism, social unrest, or financial disasters in addition to natural hazards can all lead to large-scale consequences for the nation and its communities. Communities and the nation thus face difficult fiscal, social, cultural, and environmental choices about the best ways to ensure basic security and quality of life against hazards, deliberate attacks, and disasters. Beyond the unquantifiable costs of injury and loss of life from disasters, statistics for 2011 alone indicate economic damages from natural disasters in the United States exceeded $55 billion, with 14 events costing more than a billion dollars in damages each. One way to reduce the impacts of disasters on the nation and its communities is to invest in enhancing resilience-the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from and more successfully adapt to adverse events. Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative addresses the broad issue of increasing the nation's resilience to disasters. This book defines "national resilience", describes the state of knowledge about resilience to hazards and disasters, and frames the main issues related to increasing resilience in the United States. It also provide goals, baseline conditions, or performance metrics for national resilience and outlines additional information, data, gaps, and/or obstacles that need to be addressed to increase the nation's resilience to disasters. Additionally, the book's authoring committee makes recommendations about the necessary approaches to elevate national resilience to disasters in the United States. Enhanced resilience allows better anticipation of disasters and better planning to reduce disaster losses-rather than waiting for an event to occur and paying for it afterward. Disaster Resilience confronts the topic of how to increase the nation's resilience to disasters through a vision of the characteristics of a resilient nation in the year 2030. Increasing disaster resilience is an imperative that requires the collective will of the nation and its communities. Although disasters will continue to occur, actions that move the nation from reactive approaches to disasters to a proactive stance where communities actively engage in enhancing resilience will reduce many of the broad societal and economic burdens that disasters can cause.
Author |
: National Research Council |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 142 |
Release |
: 2011-03-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309162630 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0309162637 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Building Community Disaster Resilience Through Private-Public Collaboration by : National Research Council
Natural disasters-including hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and floods-caused more than 220,000 deaths worldwide in the first half of 2010 and wreaked havoc on homes, buildings, and the environment. To withstand and recover from natural and human-caused disasters, it is essential that citizens and communities work together to anticipate threats, limit their effects, and rapidly restore functionality after a crisis. Increasing evidence indicates that collaboration between the private and public sectors could improve the ability of a community to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. Several previous National Research Council reports have identified specific examples of the private and public sectors working cooperatively to reduce the effects of a disaster by implementing building codes, retrofitting buildings, improving community education, or issuing extreme-weather warnings. State and federal governments have acknowledged the importance of collaboration between private and public organizations to develop planning for disaster preparedness and response. Despite growing ad hoc experience across the country, there is currently no comprehensive framework to guide private-public collaboration focused on disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. Building Community Disaster Resilience through Private-Public Collaboration assesses the current state of private-public sector collaboration dedicated to strengthening community resilience, identifies gaps in knowledge and practice, and recommends research that could be targeted for investment. Specifically, the book finds that local-level private-public collaboration is essential to the development of community resilience. Sustainable and effective resilience-focused private-public collaboration is dependent on several basic principles that increase communication among all sectors of the community, incorporate flexibility into collaborative networks, and encourage regular reassessment of collaborative missions, goals, and practices.