Identifying emerging issues in disaster risk reduction, migration, climate change and sustainable development : shaping debates and policies /: shaping debates and policies. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Karen Sudmeier-Rieux, Manuela Fernández, Ivanna M. Penna, Michel Jaboyedoff, J.C. Gaillard.
• Editors: Sudmeier-Rieux, Karen; Fernández, Manuela; Penna, Ivanna M; Jaboyedoff, M (Michel); Gaillard, J. C
• Contents: 1. Exploring linkages between disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, migration and sustainable development.- 2. Human mobility in a socio-environmental context: complex effects on environmental risk.- Part 1. Disaster risk reduction.- 3. Disaster risk reduction in the era of 'homeland security'; the struggle for precautionary, preventive, and non-violent approaches.- 4. Water related risks in the area of Dakar, Senegal: coastal aquifers exposed to climate change and rapid urban development.- 5. Dike Risk: Revealing the academic links between disaster risk reduction, sustainable development, climate change and migration.- 6. Jakarta – Mumbai: Two Megacities Facing Floods Engaged In A Marginalization Process Of Slum Areas.- 7. The Necessity of Early Warning Articulated Systems (EWASs): Critical Issues Beyond Response.- Part 2. Migration.- 8. Applications of disaster risk reduction principles and operational mechanisms to migration in contexts of instability.- 9. Linking migration, mobility and development for strengthening adaptation to climate and disaster risks. Reflections from Nepal.- 10. Overcoming Land Tenure Barriers in Shelter and other Reconstruction Activities in Post-Disaster Settings.- 11. Impacts of Outmigration on Land Management in a Nepali Mountain Area.- Part 3. Climate change adaptation.- 12. Reflections on disaster diplomacy for climate change and migration.- 13. Local Knowledge For Addressing Climate Change Risks At Local Level – A Case Study from Nepal.- 14. Building Farm Resilience in a Changing Climate: Challenges, Potentials, and Ways Forward for Smallholder Cocoa Production in Bolivia.- 15. The role of traditional knowledge to frame understanding of migration as adaptation to the 'slow disaster' of sea level rise in the South Pacific.- 16. Conclusions – linking sustainable development, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, migration and resilience – policy implications.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (281 pages)
• Subjects: 363.346; Environment; Hazard mitigation; Climatic changes -- Prevention; Emigration and immigration -- Environmental aspects; Sustainable development; Climatic changes; Migration; Geology; Environmental law; Environmental management; Social Science -- Emigration & Immigration; Nature -- Natural Disasters; Science -- Environmental Science; Law -- Environmental; Technology & Engineering -- Environmental -- General; Migration, immigration & emigration; Natural disasters; Sustainability; Environment law; Environmental management; Climate change
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319338804
• Related ISBNs: 9783319338781
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