Handbook of Flood Risk Management and Community Action

An International Perspective
Herausgeber: Ahadzie, Divine Kwaku; Soetanto, Robby; Proverbs, David

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Produktbeschreibung

This handbook emphasizes the need for community action as part of an integrated flood risk management approach, highlighting case studies that have made positive impacts, resulting in resilience-enhancing actions which can improve global community understanding.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9781032324708
• ISBN-10: 1032324708
• Artikelnr.: 69433139

Autorenporträt

Professor Divine Kwaku Ahadzie is an experienced award-winning researcher in Construction and Human Settlement Development. He is the Head of the Centre for Settlements Studies at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana with a demonstrated history of working in construction, housing and disaster risk reduction. Professor David Proverbs is Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He has over 25 years of experience in higher education and has held strategic leadership roles in three modern universities where he has championed student learning as a research-driven, curriculum active and enterprising academic. Robby Soetanto is Reader in Construction Innovation Management and Programme Leader of Construction Engineering Management in the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University, UK. Victor Oluwasina Oladokun is a Professor of Industrial and Production Engineering at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, a Senior Fulbright Scholar and a Commonwealth Academic Fellow.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Handbook of flood risk management and community action: An international
perspective. 2. Co-production of knowledge for flood risk management: Case
study of multiple stakeholders at Pekan, Pahang, Malaysia. 3. Local
knowledge's roles for nature-based solutions as flood risk M=management:
Pangpang Bay, Indonesia. 4. Preserving heritage, historical artefacts and
culture for social resilience and tourism amid flood disasters: A case
study of Morten Village of Sungai Melaka, Malaysia. 5. Managing emergencies
- failure and success: Lessons from a village in the Czech Republic. 6.
Drivers, services gaps and improving disaster management for displaced
people: A case study of prolonged displacement following the 2022 floods in
Lismore, Australia. 7. Capturing the effectiveness of early warning and
sustainable community-based early action interventions for disaster risk
reduction in Bangladesh: An analysis from flood-prone areas. 8. Emergency
animal-safe facilities assessment to enable livestock evacuation during
disasters in Australia. 9. Home owner/occupant property flood protection:
An appraisal of the options and opportunities used to mitigate and minimise
impacts. 10. The prevention policy and experiences of flood resilience in
Brazil. 11. Building resilience through community-based flood risk
management: Pathway and reflections. 12. Flood insurance uptake in Nigeria;
building resilience by promoting a culture of risk protection. 13.
Community flood insurance in Ghana; individual and institutional diffusion
of uptake. 14. Technology-mediated flood risk management tools: A review of
smart and mobile applications. 15. River naturalization and load sediment
detection sensor for community-based flood risk management in Indonesia.
16. Towards flood resilient supply chain systems: A facility location model
for flood prone communities. 17. Conclusion and final remarks.