External interventions for disaster risk reduction : impacts on local communities /: impacts on local communities. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Imon Chowdhooree, Shams Mansoor Ghani, editors.
• Other Names: Chowdhooree, Imon; Ghani, Shams Monsoor
• Contents: External Interventions for Enhancing Community Resilience: An Overview of Planning Paradigms -- Lessons Learned from Interventions of External Organizations in Disaster Management: A Case Study of Floods in Kalutara, Sri Lanka -- Dependency on External Supports: An Addition to Community Vulnerability -- Sustainable Development through Post-Disaster Reconstruction: A Unique Example in Sri Lanka -- Local Community Engagement for Adaptation to Future Challenges in The Pilot Flood Detention Area of Thailand -- Traditional Practices, Communities Aspirations, and Reconstructed End Products: Analyzing the Post-Sidr Reconstruction in the Coastal Region of Bangladesh -- Designing Spaces with Victims of Humanitarian Crisis: Action Research on Spaces for Children at Rohingya Camps in Bangladesh -- Disaster Risk Reduction in Cities: Towards A New Normal -- Disaster Risk Reduction in Cities: Towards A New Normal -- Rethinking Roles of Local Non-Governmental Organizations (LNGO) in Managing Disaster Risks in Historic Neighborhoods: Experiences from the City of Lagos, Nigeria -- A Complexity Approach for Reducing Disaster Risks for Marginalized Urban Populations: Comparing DRR Interventions across Four Cities -- Adaptation and Development for Mitigating Impacts of Climate Change and Climate Extremes -- Public and Private Sector Interventions in Post-Disaster Resettlement: A Case Study of Model Villages in Pakistan -- Effectiveness of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) Training Programs: Views and Voices from Barisal Division, a Coastal Region in Bangladesh -- To 'Float or 'Not: Cases of Amphibious Housing and Their Impacts on Vulnerable Communities of Jamaica.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 363.34/6; Hazard mitigation; Sustainable development; Environmental monitoring; Regional & area planning; Climate change; Geographical information systems (GIS) & remote sensing; Natural disasters; Science -- Environmental Science; Political Science -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development; Science -- Global Warming & Climate Change; Technology & Engineering -- Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems; Nature -- Natural Disasters; Hazard mitigation; Sustainable development; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811549489; 9811549486
• Related ISBNs: 9811549478; 9789811549472
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