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This diagnostics toolkit is designed to help countries assess the
financial management of disaster risk and to provide a basis for
them to enhance financial resilience through insurance and other
risk transfer instruments. Disasters damage and destroy
infrastructure and disrupt economic activities and services,
potentially delaying long-term development and hampering efforts to
reduce poverty in the region. Countries require a strong enabling
environment for disaster risk financing to ensure the timely
availability of post-disaster funding. In the report, the framework
examines the state of the enabling environment and incorporates
lessons from country diagnostics assessments for Fiji, Nepal,
Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
This book presents and discusses a strategy which includes four
approaches to dealing with the risk of sea-level rise and other
water hazards. It also offers opportunities for cities to explore
urban extensions such as marine estates, aquatic food production
systems, new sea related industries, maritime transport
developments, new oceanic tourist attractions, and the designation
of additional coastal ecological zones. The urban interface between
Sea and Cities generates, therefore, both burning issues and
valuable opportunities and raises the question of whether it is
possible to solve the former by exploiting the latter?
This book presents state-of-the-art, essential methods and tools
for flood risk assessment and management. The costs of damage
caused by extreme weather events, among which floods are a major
category, are rapidly rising, both globally and across Europe. The
scope and scale of flood episodes point to the need for
comprehensive proposals, including the implementation of flood
protection measures in areas exposed to flood risk. This book is
dedicated to flood damage assessment, and addresses the management
of social, economic and environmental damage. It develops a general
methodology for flood risk assessment and presents a range of
effective flood protection methods in keeping with the objectives
of flood risk management. As such, it offers a valuable resource
for young researchers, academics, lecturers and water management
practitioners alike.
This book presents an overview of volcanic debris avalanche
deposits, which are produced by partial volcanic edifice collapse,
a catastrophic natural phenomenon. It has been 40 years since the
volcanic debris avalanche associated with the 1980 eruption of
Mount St. Helens, and our understanding of these events has grown
considerably in the interim. Drawing on these advances, the book
addresses all aspects of volcanic debris avalanches. Though
previously overlooked in field-based geological and volcanological
studies, these deposits are now known to be associated with most
volcanoes and volcanic areas around the world. The book presents
state-of-the-art ideas on the triggering and emplacement mechanisms
of these events, supported by field and analogue studies, as well
as new simulations tools and models used to determine their
physical characteristic and hazards.
This book presents essential advances in analytical frameworks and
tools for modeling the spatial and economic impacts of disasters.
In the wake of natural disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina, the
Haiti Earthquake, and the East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, as
well as major terrorist attacks, the book analyzes disaster impacts
from various perspectives, including resilience, space-time
extensions, and decision-making strategies, in order to better
understand how and to what extent these events impact economies and
societies around the world. The contributing authors are
internationally recognized experts from various disciplines, such
as economics, geography, planning, regional science, civil
engineering, and risk management. Thanks to the insights they
provide, the book will benefit not only researchers in these and
related fields, but also graduate students, disaster management
professionals, and other decision-makers.
This book explores policy, legal, and practice implications
regarding the emerging field of disaster justice, using case
studies of floods, bushfires, heatwaves, and earthquakes in
Australia and Southern and South-east Asia. It reveals geographic
locational and social disadvantage and structural inequities that
lead to increased risk and vulnerability to disaster, and which
impact ability to recover post-disaster. Written by
multidisciplinary disaster researchers, the book addresses all
stages of the disaster management cycle, demonstrating or
recommending just approaches to preparation, response and recovery.
It notably reveals how procedural, distributional and interactional
aspects of justice enhance resilience, and offers a cutting edge
analysis of disaster justice for managers, policy makers,
researchers in justice, climate change or emergency management.
This book presents a comprehensive selection of applications
employed in environmental remote sensing using optical and thermal
infrared satellite-sensors aiming to map natural resources, crops,
groundwater, surface water, aquatic ecosystem, land degradation,
air quality, renewable energy, regional resources, and
climate-related geophysical processes. The technologies presented
in this book also include satellite images, space-borne radar
sensors focusing on the most versatile one, data from synthetic
aperture radar (SAR), scatterometers and radar altimeters in Egypt.
This volume also presents a thorough explanation of the remote
sensing role showing physical fundamentals of the climate change
phenomenon including gas emissions, and the impact on resources
concerning the sustainable development of Egypt. Besides, the book
includes an analysis of oil pollution in both Mediterranean and Red
Seas This book is intended for environmental policymakers working
in Egypt as well as scientists working with remote sensing
technologies in highly populated arid regions.
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