Springer Climate Change, Disaster Risks, and Human Security: Asian Experience and Perspectives (Disaster Risk Reduction)

This book explores how climate change and disaster risks threaten human security in Asia. Climate change and disaster risks have emerged as major human security challenges in the twenty-first century, and are an imminent “threat multiplier” with the potential to harm the vital core of human life and curtail people’s freedom and ability to live with dignity. Climate change and disaster risks undermine the security of individuals, communities, nations, and the world, considering the increasing trend in the frequency and magnitude of hydro-meteorological disasters and the projections on their future adverse impacts. Despite recent advances in the literature, there is still a major gap in understanding the relationship and linkages between climate change, disaster risks, and human security, particularly as gleaned from the Asian experience. Asia is the world’s most vulnerable region in terms of the quantity and magnitude of impacts from various forms of disaster. At the same time, it has developed a number of innovative responses to address those risks, offering a wealth of experience. Exploring and capitalizing on the Asian perspective, this book provides valuable resource material for students, academics, researchers, policymakers, and development practitioners working in these areas. From the Back Cover This book explores how climate change and disaster risks threaten human security in Asia. Climate change and disaster risks have emerged as major human security challenges in the twenty-first century, and are an imminent “threat multiplier” with the potential to harm the vital core of human life and curtail people’s freedom and ability to live with dignity. Climate change and disaster risks undermine the security of individuals, communities, nations, and the world, considering the increasing trend in the frequency and magnitude of hydro-meteorological disasters and the projections on their future adverse impacts. Despite recent advances in the literature, there is still a major gap in understanding the relationship and linkages between climate change, disaster risks, and human security, particularly as gleaned from the Asian experience. Asia is the world’s most vulnerable region in terms of the quantity and magnitude of impacts from various forms of disaster. At the same time, it has developed a number of innovative responses to address those risks, offering a wealth of experience. Exploring and capitalizing on the Asian perspective, this book provides valuable resource material for students, academics, researchers, policymakers, and development practitioners working in these areas. About the Author Dr. Juan M. Pulhin is a full professor and former dean of the College of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines. He was a lead author of the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a coordinating lead author of the Human Security Chapter of the 2014 IPCC Fifth Assessment Report and currently a lead author of the Asia chapter of IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. He has been a four-time visiting professor at the University of Tokyo in 2007, 2010, 2016 and 2017 and a Visiting Scholar at the Waseda University, Tokyo in 2018. He has written and edited 11 books and published more than 100 technical papers and book chapters on natural resources policy and governance, and on the human dimension of climate change and disaster risks. He is a fellow, invited expert, and council member of several international organizations and a member of the Philippine National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST). Dr. Makoto Inoue is a professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Japan and former professor at The University of Tokyo. He serves as a dean of Graduate School of Human Sciences, Waseda University effective September 2020. His specialty is environmental sociology, forest governance, and S