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Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction - Putting Research into Practice (Hardcover, New)
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Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction - Putting Research into Practice (Hardcover, New)
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Building upon presentations given during the conference on
'Disaster Risk Reduction for Natural Hazards: Putting Research into
Practice', held at University College London in November 2009, the
articles collected in this book examine how natural hazards
research is accessed and used by practitioners and decision-makers,
and conversely, how policy and practice inform research. As with
the conference, this book successfully brings together views from
humanitarian and development agencies, academia, business,
government and funding bodies. It is rare to engage such a wide
range of sectors in a discussion relating to the issues of disaster
risk reduction from a natural hazards perspective, and the book
captures this interaction and the resultant exchange of ideas, thus
providing an insight into how stakeholders respectively undertake
or engage with natural hazards research. Collectively, the articles
highlight the need for greater dialogue, understanding and
collaboration between all these sectors if research is to be made
relevant and generate significant impact on risk reduction policy
and practice. There is an urgent requirement to better understand
the respective needs, ways of working, project timescales and
funding mechanisms for disaster risk reduction, as well as the
challenges posed by institutional and organizational structures and
functions. These issues must be overcome to ensure that ultimately,
and most significantly, discussions turn into positive practical
actions so that research on natural hazards is relevant and
applicable. The book represents a step in that journey. This book
was published as a special issue of Environmental Hazards.
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