Iftekhar Ahmed, Kim Maund, Thayaparan Gajendran

Disaster Resilience in South Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Tackling the Odds in the Sub-Continental Fringes

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book considers the challenges of building disaster resilience in South Asia - a region that frequently experiences some of the most severe and devastating impacts of disasters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429766558
• Artikelnr.: 59308681

Autorenporträt

Iftekhar Ahmed is an Associate Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His research focuses on disaster resilience, post-disaster housing and climate change adaptation. He has co-authored the book Sustainable Housing Reconstruction (Routledge, 2015) and co-edited the book Community Engagement in Post-Disaster Recovery (Routledge, 2017).

Kim Maund is Discipline Head and Senior Lecturer in Construction Management at the University of Newcastle, Australia. With more than 15 years' industry experience across government and private sectors, her research focuses on policy within the built environment, particularly in relation to urban planning and building and codes in the context of disaster resilience.

Thayaparan Gajendran is an Associate Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His research focuses on cultural and governance approaches for building resilience. He has co-authored many research publications in the areas of disaster risk communication and disaster governance.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; 1. Introduction: Tackling the Odds in the Sub-Continental
Fringes: Disaster Resilience in the Smaller Countries of South Asia; 2. An
Old Hand: Comprehensive Disaster Risk Reduction Institutional Framework in
Bangladesh; 3. Icy Flood: Adapting to the impacts of Glacial Lake Outburst
Floods in Bhutan; 4. Staying Afloat: Disaster recovery in the climate
change-threatened atolls of the Maldives; 5. Rule of Thumb: Opportunities
and barriers to compliance of building codes for disaster resilience in
Nepal; 6. Framing Accountability: Policy implementation following floods
and landslides in Sri Lanka; 7. Conclusion: Key considerations for disaster
resilience in the smaller countries of South Asia; Index