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Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience

  • Focuses on disaster risk reduction from a multidisciplinary resilience perspective
  • Includes discussions of how diverse topics are connected with goals identified by the Sendai Framework 2015–2030
  • Addresses resilience to various natural hazards including flood, wind, earthquake, volcano, landslide, and Natech types

Part of the book series: Disaster and Risk Research: GADRI Book Series (DRRGBS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
  2. Introduction

    • Muneta Yokomatsu, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
    Pages 1-7
  3. Recognition of Earthquake-Prone Areas for Seismic Hazard Evaluation

    • Alexey Gvishiani, Boris Dzeboev, Stanislav Nekhoroshev
    Pages 9-24
  4. Toward Natech Resilient Industries

    • Maria Camila Suarez-Paba, Dimitrios Tzioutzios, Ana Maria Cruz, Elisabeth Krausmann
    Pages 45-64
  5. Resilience and Electricity

    • Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany, Mahban Arghavani
    Pages 65-90
  6. Building the Evidence Base to Achieve the Sendai Framework for DRR Goals

    • Kanmani Venkateswaran, Karen MacClune
    Pages 191-211
  7. Fiscal Resilience and Building Back Better: A Global Analysis for Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies

    • Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Junko Mochizuki, Keith Williges, Reinhard Mechler
    Pages 213-230
  8. Discussion and Outlook for the Future

    • Muneta Yokomatsu, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
    Pages 231-236

About this book

This book provides insight on how disaster risk management can increase the resilience of society to various natural hazards. The multi-dimensionality of resilience and the various different perspectives in regards to disaster risk reduction are taken explicitly into account by providing studies and approaches on different scales and ranging from natural science based methods to social science frameworks. For all chapters, special emphasis is placed on implementation aspects and specifically in regards to the targets and priorities for action laid out in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The chapters provide also a starting point for interested readers on specific issues of resilience and therefore include extensive reference material and important future directions for research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan

    Muneta Yokomatsu

  • Risk and Resilience Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria

    Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler

About the editors

Muneta Yokomatsu is an associate professor of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, and a guest research scholar with the Risk and Resilience (RISK) program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). He is a treasurer of the Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM) Society, and an editor in chief of the Journal of Natural Disaster Science (JNDS). 


Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler is a senior research scholar with the Risk and Resilience (RISK) program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and leader of the Risk Analysis and Modeling Group. A member of the Board of Directors of the Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM) Society and the Board of Directors of the Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI), he is also a lecturer at the University of Vienna, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and the Graduate School at the Institute for Advanced Study in Pavia.



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