Springer Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience (Disaster and Risk Research: GADRI Book Series)

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. From the Back Cover 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. 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.