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Publisher

Elsevier

Year

2021

ISBN

9780323851961

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Human Geography

Index

Social Sciences

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Foreword
Chapter 1: Toward sustainable development: Risk-informed and disaster-resilient development in Asia
Chapter 2: Role of public policy in disaster risk reduction: A review
Chapter 3: Transboundary water risk governance frameworks in deltaic socio-economic regions: A case study of river deltas in Bangladesh, India, and Vietnam
Chapter 4: Framing the determinants of drought vulnerability in Malawian communities: An exposure, susceptibility, and capacity perspective from Karonga district
Chapter 5: Disaster resilience and sustainability in South and South-East Asia: The politico-diplomatic equations of regional cooperation
Chapter 6: Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment model for GIS-based seismic risk study of Thiruvananthapuram City
Chapter 7: Assessment of groundwater vulnerability in highly industrialized Noyyal basin using AHP-DRASTIC and Geographic Information System
Chapter 8: GIS-based landslide susceptibility zonation mapping using fuzzy gamma operator model in part of Trans-Asian Highway (Mao-Kangpokpi), Manipur, India
Chapter 9: GIS perspective hazard risk assessment: A study of Fiji Island
Chapter 10: Interannual and intraannual comparative study of sea surface temperature distribution over the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea within the time frame of 2003–18
Chapter 11: Flood damage assessment with multitemporal earth observation SAR satellite images: A case of coastal flooding in Southern Thailand
Chapter 12: Ecosystem for disaster risk reduction in Bangladesh: A case study after the Cyclone “Aila”
Chapter 13: Climate risk information as a basis for adaptive spatial planning: A case study from Thailand
Chapter 14: Characterization of meteorological droughts in the Upper Bhima Catchment of Maharashtra State, India
Chapter 15: Challenges in main streaming climate resilience in land-use planning: A case study in Malaysian local government
Chapter 16: Identification of drought intensity and development of drought resilience in the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh, India
Chapter 17: Assessing the impact of 2018 tropical rainfall and the consecutive flood-related damages for the state of Kerala, India
Chapter 18: Coastal ecosystems and changing economic activities: Challenges for sustainability transition
Chapter 19: Conceptualizing an integrated framework for natural hazards, insurance, and poverty nexus
Chapter 20: Pre- and postdisaster human settlements in flood-prone urban areas: A focus on Thailand
Chapter 21: Estimation of district-wise livelihood vulnerability index for the four coastal states in India
Chapter 22: Assessing the role of a rehabilitated polder in sustainable agricultural development: A case study from Bangladesh
Chapter 23: Risk reduction and resilience buildup in railroad transport
Chapter 24: Salinity and the health of the poor in coastal Bangladesh
Chapter 25: Assessing the impact of damage and government response toward the cyclone Gaja in Tamil Nadu, India
Chapter 26: 2017 flash flood in Bangladesh: Lessons learnt
Chapter 27: Effects of soil erosion on water quality: A case study from Uma Oya Catchment, Sri Lanka
Chapter 28: Citizen sciences for smart water solution in South-western part of Bangladesh
Chapter 29: Social capital and disaster risk reduction in a periurban context
Chapter 30: Disaster risk reduction education (DRRE) and resilience in Asia-Pacific
Chapter 31: In pursuit of a taxonomical definition of disaster diplomacy—An empirical scientometric analysis
Chapter 32: Formal and nonformal disaster education interventions in Pakistan
Chapter 33: Last mile communication of multihazard early warning—A case study on Bangladesh
Author Index
Subject Index