Ecosystem-Based Disaster and Climate Resilience

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Uncertainties in Urbanizing World and Nature-Based Resilience Building

   • Mahua Mukherjee, Rajib Shaw

   Pages 1-25

3. Policy Analysis, Policy Framing and Recognition of Nature-Based Solution

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (EbA) in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: Status, Progress and Challenges

      • Sunita Chaudhary, Basant Raj Adhikari, Pashupati Chaudhary, Tashi Dorji, Renuka Poudel

      Pages 29-51

   3. Evaluation of Ecosystem-Based Approaches for Disaster and Climate Risk Resilience and Policy Perspectives in Pakistan

      • Muhammad Barkat Ali Khan, Atta-ur Rahman, Rajib Shaw

      Pages 53-84

   4. Ecosystem-Based Approaches and Policy Perspectives in Nepal

      • Shobha Poudel, Bhogendra Mishra, Rajib Shaw

      Pages 85-100

   5. Ecosystem-Based Approaches and Policy Perspective from India

      • Shweta Bhardwaj, Anil Kumar Gupta

      Pages 101-125

   6. Ecosystem-Based Approaches and Policy Perspectives: Towards an Integrated Blue–Green Solutions in Vietnam

      • Thi My Thi Tong, Ngoc Huy Nguyen

      Pages 127-160

   7. Turning Blue, Green and Gray: Opportunities for Blue-Green Infrastructure in the Philippines

      • Noralene Uy, Chris Tapnio

      Pages 161-184

   8. Making Resilience a Reality: The Contribution of Peri-urban Ecosystem Services (BGI) to Urban Resilience

      • Celeste Norman, Akhilesh Surjan, Miranda Booth

      Pages 185-200

   9. Innovations to Reduce Disaster Risks of Water Challenges

      • Piyalee Biswas, Neelima Alam, Sanjay Bajpai

      Pages 201-222

4. Science Investigation, Technology and Planning Intervention

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223

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   2. Future Heat Risk in South Asia and the Need for Ecosystem Mitigation

      • Peter J. Marcotullio, Michael T. Schmeltz

      Pages 225-252

   3. Urban Risk Assessment Tools and Techniques for Ecosystem-Based Solutions

      • Aditya Rahul, Siva Ram Edupuganti, Vickyson Naorem, Mahua Mukherjee, Talbot Brooks

      Pages 253-278

   4. Scaling-up Nature-Based Solutions for Mainstreaming Resilience in Indian Cities

      • Shalini Dhyani, Rudrodip Majumdar, Harini Santhanam

      Pages 279-306

   5. Incorporation of BIM Based Modeling in Sustainable Development of Green Building from Stakeholders Perspective

      • Raju Sarkar, Karan Narang, Abhinav Daalia, Vidushi Gautam, Ujjawal Nathani, Rajib Shaw

      Pages 307-323

   6. Road to Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Reduction: Comprehensive Approach for Smart Urban Areas Management

      • Norio Maki

      Pages 325-334

5. Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 335-335

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   2. Path Towards Sustainable Water Management: A Case Study of Shimla, India

      • Kamakshi Thapa, Chetna Singh, Sameer Deshkar, Rajib Shaw

      Pages 337-356

   3. Application of Remote Sensing Image in ECO-DRR for Dehradun City

      • Atul Kumar, Jeevan Madapala, Mahua Mukherjee, Shirish Ravana, Sandeep Sharma

      Pages 357-388

This book provides an introduction to the critical role of ecosystem-based disaster risk resilience (Eco-DRR) for building community resilience to multiple environmental risks such as rising heat, water stress, and pollution. Blue-green infrastructure (BGI) is an Eco-DRR tool that is an under-explored paradigm and can respond as one common strategy to targets set by the Sustainable Development Goals (UNDP), Climate Agreements (UNEP), the Sendai Framework (UNISDR), and the New Urban Agenda (UNCHS).
 
Highlighted here in a systematic way is the importance of blue-green infrastructures in resilience building. The purpose is to introduce readers to the challenging context of development and opportunity creation for Eco-DRR. The roles of policy, scientific research, and implementation are presented cohesively. An attractive proposition of the book is a collection of case studies from different parts of the world where integration of BGI is experimented with atvarious levels of success. It envisages that shared tacit experiences from the realm of practice will further strengthen explicit knowledge.
 
The focus in this book is on need and context building, policy and science (investigation, analysis, and design), case studies, and a road map for the future in four successive parts. Each part is self-sufficient yet linked to its predecessor, successor, or both, as the case may be.

• Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Resilience (Eco-DRR)
• Sustainable Development
• Blue-Green Infrastructure
• Policy and Governance
• Sustainable Development Goals
• Climate Agreements
• Sendai Framework
• New Urban Agenda

• Department of Architecture and Planning, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India

  Mahua Mukherjee

• Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Shonan Fujisawa Campus, Fujisawa, Japan

  Rajib Shaw

Mahua Mukherjee is a professor in the Department of Architecture and Planning at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee), India. She was Head, Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management in IIT Roorkee. She has worked in the field of sustainable development, urbanising habitat, urban climate, and risk resilience with an inclusive approach. Her research expertise involves investigation of urban environmental risks including heat islands and water stress, and solution-centric scenario generation using the blue-green infrastructure. She is involved with India’s seismic resilience mission for habitat; she has contributed to the SAARC Disaster Mitigation and Management Centre and has organised training sessions, conferences, and edited volumes. She is a Fulbright Fellow and was Visiting Faculty at Pennsylvania State University, USA, and the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan. Prof. Mukherjee is engaged with young scholars andhas organised resilience- and sustainability-related competitions. Currently, she is UNDRR-APSTAG Board Member and Secretary-General to the South Asia Alliance for Disaster Research Institutes (SAADRI).  


Rajib Shaw is a professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance in Keio University, Japan. He is also Senior Fellow of the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan and Chairperson of the Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS) Asia and the Church World Service (CWS) Japan, two Japanese NGOs. Earlier, he was the executive director of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) and was a professor at Kyoto University. His expertise includes disaster governance, community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education. Professor Shaw is the chair of the United Nations Science Technology Advisory Group (STAG) for disaster riskreduction and the co-chair of the Asia Science Technology Academic Advisory Group (ASTAAG). He is also the coordinating lead author for the Asia chapter of IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report.  He is the editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal Progress in Disaster Science and the series editor of the Springer book series on disaster risk reduction. Prof. Shaw has published 51 books and over 300 academic papers and book chapters. 

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