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This book includes selected papers presented at the international
expert forum on "Mainstreaming Resilience and Disaster Risk
Reduction in Education," held at the Asian Institute of Technology,
Thailand on 1-2 December 2017. The journey towards disaster risk
reduction and resilience requires the participation of a wide array
of stakeholders ranging from academics to policymakers, to disaster
managers. Given the multifaceted and interdependent nature of
disasters, disaster risk reduction and resilience require a
multidisciplinary problem-solving approach and evidence-based
techniques from the natural, social, engineering, and other
relevant sciences. Traditionally, hazard and disaster-related
studies have been dominated by the engineering and social science
fields. In this regard, the main purpose of this book is to capture
the multidisciplinary and multisectoral nature of disaster risk
reduction, and to gather existing data, research, conceptual work,
and practical cases regarding risk reduction and its ties to
sustainable development under a single "umbrella." Along with the
sustainability aspect, the book also links disaster risk reduction
with development, technology, governance, education, and climate
change, and includes discussions on challenges, solutions, and best
practices in the mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction.
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. Despite
significant work to assist affected communities, many smaller South
Asian countries remain particularly vulnerable in terms of
fostering disaster resilience. Drawing on examples from Bangladesh,
Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka, the book offers rich
insights and narratives on disaster resilience policy and practice.
It considers the possibilities for advancing community resilience
and capacity building through an exploration of different aspects
of governance and policy. Given the diversity of these countries
and recent disasters, a variety of perspectives are considered:
institutional and policy frameworks, risk management governance,
recovery operations, building codes, and policy and media
discourse. The book offers a collective understanding of practice,
which can offer global lessons to a world increasingly beset by
disasters and with uncertain environmental futures. This book will
be a valuable resource for scholars, practitioners and students in
the fields of disaster risk reduction and management, climate
change adaptation, public policy and sustainable development.
This handbook examines Pakistan's 70-year history from a number of
different perspectives. When Pakistan was born, it did not have a
capital, a functioning government or a central bank. The country
lacked a skilled workforce. While the state was in the process of
being established, eight million Muslim refugees arrived from
India, who had to be absorbed into a population of 24 million
people. However, within 15 years, Pakistan was the fastest growing
and transforming economy in the developing world, although the
political evolution of the country during this period was not
equally successful. Pakistan has vast agricultural and human
resources, and its location promises trade, investment and other
opportunities. Chapters in the volume, written by experts in the
field, examine government and politics, economics, foreign policy
and environmental issues, as well as social aspects of Pakistan's
development, including the media, technology, gender and education.
Shahid Javed Burki is an economist who has been a member of the
faculty at Harvard University, USA, and Chief Economist, Planning
and Development Department, Government of the Punjab. He has also
served as Minister of Finance in the Government of Pakistan, and
has written a number of books, and journal and newspaper articles.
He joined the World Bank in 1974 as a senior economist and went on
to serve in several senior positions. He was the (first) Director
of the China Department (1987-94) and served as the Regional
Vice-President for Latin America and the Caribbean during 1994-99.
He is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Shahid
Javed Burki Institute of Public Policy at NetSol (BIPP) in Lahore.
Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury is a career Bangladeshi diplomat and
former Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Government of Bangladesh
(2007-08). He has a PhD in international relations from the
Australian National University, Canberra. He began his career as a
member of the civil service of Pakistan in 1969. Dr Chowdhury has
held senior diplomatic positions in the course of his career,
including as Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United
Nations in New York (2001-07) and in Geneva (1996-2001), and was
ambassador to Qatar, Chile, Peru and the Vatican. He is currently a
visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of South Asian
Studies, National University of Singapore. Asad Ejaz Butt is the
Director of the Burki Institute of Public Policy, Lahore, Pakistan.
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. Despite
significant work to assist affected communities, many smaller South
Asian countries remain particularly vulnerable in terms of
fostering disaster resilience. Drawing on examples from Bangladesh,
Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka, the book offers rich
insights and narratives on disaster resilience policy and practice.
It considers the possibilities for advancing community resilience
and capacity building through an exploration of different aspects
of governance and policy. Given the diversity of these countries
and recent disasters, a variety of perspectives are considered:
institutional and policy frameworks, risk management governance,
recovery operations, building codes, and policy and media
discourse. The book offers a collective understanding of practice,
which can offer global lessons to a world increasingly beset by
disasters and with uncertain environmental futures. This book will
be a valuable resource for scholars, practitioners and students in
the fields of disaster risk reduction and management, climate
change adaptation, public policy and sustainable development.
Community Engagement in Post-Disaster Recovery reflects a wide
array of practical experiences in working with disaster-affected
communities internationally. It demonstrates that widely held
assumptions about the benefits of community consultation and
engagement in disaster recovery work need to be examined more
critically because poorly conceived and hastily implemented
community engagement strategies have sometimes exacerbated
divisions within affected communities and/or resulted in
ineffective use of aid funding. It is equally demonstrated that
well-crafted, creative and thoughtful programming is possible. The
wide collection of case studies of practical experience from around
the world is presented to help establish ways of working with
communities experiencing great challenges. The book offers
practical suggestions on how to give more substance to the rhetoric
of community consultation and engagement in these areas of work. It
suggests the need to work with a dynamic understanding of community
formation that is particularly relevant when people experience
unforeseen challenges and traumatic experiences. This title
interrogates the concept of community through an extensive review
of the literature and explores the ways of working with communities
in transition and particularly in their recovery phases through an
array of case studies in a range of socioeconomic and political
contexts. Focused on the concept of community in post-disaster
recovery solutions-an aspect which has received little critical
interrogation in the literature-this book will be a valuable
resource to students and scholars in disaster management as well as
humanitarian agencies.
Community Engagement in Post-Disaster Recovery reflects a wide
array of practical experiences in working with disaster-affected
communities internationally. It demonstrates that widely held
assumptions about the benefits of community consultation and
engagement in disaster recovery work need to be examined more
critically because poorly conceived and hastily implemented
community engagement strategies have sometimes exacerbated
divisions within affected communities and/or resulted in
ineffective use of aid funding. It is equally demonstrated that
well-crafted, creative and thoughtful programming is possible. The
wide collection of case studies of practical experience from around
the world is presented to help establish ways of working with
communities experiencing great challenges. The book offers
practical suggestions on how to give more substance to the rhetoric
of community consultation and engagement in these areas of work. It
suggests the need to work with a dynamic understanding of community
formation that is particularly relevant when people experience
unforeseen challenges and traumatic experiences. This title
interrogates the concept of community through an extensive review
of the literature and explores the ways of working with communities
in transition and particularly in their recovery phases through an
array of case studies in a range of socioeconomic and political
contexts. Focused on the concept of community in post-disaster
recovery solutions-an aspect which has received little critical
interrogation in the literature-this book will be a valuable
resource to students and scholars in disaster management as well as
humanitarian agencies.
The majority of the poor people in South and Southeast Asia do not
have sufficient access to safe potable water sources. Various
studies demonstrate that poor women have less access than poor men,
especially in the developing world. Due to the gendered division of
labor, the role of women, especially those who are poor, is vital
in collecting, distributing, and safeguarding water. Current
studies on water governance do not focus on poor women's ability to
access potable water sources through their involvement in the
distribution process. Water for Poor Women: Quest for an
Alternative Paradigm, by Sayeed Iftekhar Ahmed, develops an
alternative governance paradigm to ensure poor women's water
security through their participation in the governance process.
This study assesses the effects of governance on water distribution
and participation from the perspective of poor women. Ahmed
examines the state-led and Public Private Participation (PPP)
governance systems located in two developing metropolises: Dhaka,
Bangladesh and Manila, the Philippines, respectively. This crucial
investigation reveals that poor women have very limited ability to
access water under the state-led governance system in Dhaka, but
comparatively more ability to access water resources under the PPP
governance in Manila. However, women are excluded from the
decision-making process under both types of governance systems.
Water for Poor Women proposes an alternative system of governance
for ensuring women's participation in the governance processes to
promote the goal of more equitable distribution of urban water.
Through 12 case studies from Australia, Bangladesh, Haiti, Sri
Lanka, Vietnam and the USA, this book focuses on the housing
reconstruction process after an earthquake, tsunami, cyclone, flood
or fire. Design of post-disaster housing is not simply replacing
the destroyed house but, as these case studies highlight, a means
to not only build a safer house but also a more resilient
community; not to simply return to the same condition as before the
disaster, but an opportunity for building back better. The book
explores two main themes: Housing reconstruction is most successful
when involving the users in the design and construction process
Housing reconstruction is most effective when it is integrated with
community infrastructure, services and the means to create real
livelihoods. The case studies included in this book highlight work
completed by different agencies and built environment professionals
in diverse disaster-affected contexts. With a global acceleration
of natural disasters, often linked to accelerating climate change,
there is a critical demand for robust housing solutions for
vulnerable communities. This book provides professionals, policy
makers and community stakeholders working in the international
development and disaster risk management sectors, with an
evidence-based exploration of how to add real value through the
design process in housing reconstruction. Herein then, the
knowledge we need to build, an approach to improve our processes, a
window to understanding the complex domain of post-disaster housing
reconstruction.
This book includes selected papers presented at the international
expert forum on "Mainstreaming Resilience and Disaster Risk
Reduction in Education," held at the Asian Institute of Technology,
Thailand on 1-2 December 2017. The journey towards disaster risk
reduction and resilience requires the participation of a wide array
of stakeholders ranging from academics to policymakers, to disaster
managers. Given the multifaceted and interdependent nature of
disasters, disaster risk reduction and resilience require a
multidisciplinary problem-solving approach and evidence-based
techniques from the natural, social, engineering, and other
relevant sciences. Traditionally, hazard and disaster-related
studies have been dominated by the engineering and social science
fields. In this regard, the main purpose of this book is to capture
the multidisciplinary and multisectoral nature of disaster risk
reduction, and to gather existing data, research, conceptual work,
and practical cases regarding risk reduction and its ties to
sustainable development under a single "umbrella." Along with the
sustainability aspect, the book also links disaster risk reduction
with development, technology, governance, education, and climate
change, and includes discussions on challenges, solutions, and best
practices in the mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction.
This handbook examines Pakistan's 70-year history from a number of
different perspectives. When Pakistan was born, it did not have a
capital, a functioning government or a central bank. The country
lacked a skilled workforce. While the state was in the process of
being established, eight million Muslim refugees arrived from
India, who had to be absorbed into a population of 24 million
people. However, within 15 years, Pakistan was the fastest growing
and transforming economy in the developing world, although the
political evolution of the country during this period was not
equally successful. Pakistan has vast agricultural and human
resources, and its location promises trade, investment and other
opportunities. Chapters in the volume, written by experts in the
field, examine government and politics, economics, foreign policy
and environmental issues, as well as social aspects of Pakistan's
development, including the media, technology, gender and education.
Shahid Javed Burki is an economist who has been a member of the
faculty at Harvard University, USA, and Chief Economist, Planning
and Development Department, Government of the Punjab. He has also
served as Minister of Finance in the Government of Pakistan, and
has written a number of books, and journal and newspaper articles.
He joined the World Bank in 1974 as a senior economist and went on
to serve in several senior positions. He was the (first) Director
of the China Department (1987-94) and served as the Regional
Vice-President for Latin America and the Caribbean during 1994-99.
He is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Shahid
Javed Burki Institute of Public Policy at NetSol (BIPP) in Lahore.
Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury is a career Bangladeshi diplomat and
former Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Government of Bangladesh
(2007-08). He has a PhD in international relations from the
Australian National University, Canberra. He began his career as a
member of the civil service of Pakistan in 1969. Dr Chowdhury has
held senior diplomatic positions in the course of his career,
including as Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United
Nations in New York (2001-07) and in Geneva (1996-2001), and was
ambassador to Qatar, Chile, Peru and the Vatican. He is currently a
visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of South Asian
Studies, National University of Singapore. Asad Ejaz Butt is the
Director of the Burki Institute of Public Policy, Lahore, Pakistan.
Through 12 case studies from Australia, Bangladesh, Haiti, Sri
Lanka, Vietnam and the USA, this book focuses on the housing
reconstruction process after an earthquake, tsunami, cyclone, flood
or fire. Design of post-disaster housing is not simply replacing
the destroyed house but, as these case studies highlight, a means
to not only build a safer house but also a more resilient
community; not to simply return to the same condition as before the
disaster, but an opportunity for building back better. The book
explores two main themes: Housing reconstruction is most successful
when involving the users in the design and construction process
Housing reconstruction is most effective when it is integrated with
community infrastructure, services and the means to create real
livelihoods. The case studies included in this book highlight work
completed by different agencies and built environment professionals
in diverse disaster-affected contexts. With a global acceleration
of natural disasters, often linked to accelerating climate change,
there is a critical demand for robust housing solutions for
vulnerable communities. This book provides professionals, policy
makers and community stakeholders working in the international
development and disaster risk management sectors, with an
evidence-based exploration of how to add real value through the
design process in housing reconstruction. Herein then, the
knowledge we need to build, an approach to improve our processes, a
window to understanding the complex domain of post-disaster housing
reconstruction.
Afghanistan: The Next Phase takes an in-depth look at the present
situation in Afghanistan by placing it in the context of the
country's tribal culture, history, and demography. It considers its
association with Pakistan, with whom it shares not only a long
border, but also the Pashtuns-the largest ethnic component in its
population-and the rise of extremism in many parts of the Sunni
world. The country faces an uncertain future as it has yet to
develop the institutional structure that could transform it into an
inclusive society. This book offers analysis of what the economic
future holds for Afghanistan as the United States completes the
withdrawal of combat troops, when the flow of foreign capital that
has helped the country is likely to be reduced significantly. The
authors propose a formal association of a dozen countries to
chaperone the country into the future. In the absence of such an
arrangement, Afghanistan could once again become a failed state,
which would have repercussions around the world.
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