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Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience

New Frameworks for Building Resilience to Disasters

  • Discusses how to measure and build disaster resilience at society’s capacity
  • Outlines the key indicators of disaster resilience and how communities can target them
  • Provides the available resources and techniques to build resilient communities

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Learning from Past Disasters to Prepare for the Future

    • Julien Rebotier, Patrick Pigeon, Michael H. Glantz
    Pages 79-105
  3. New Frameworks for Building Resilience in Hazard Management

    • Saeid Eslamian, Saeideh Parvizi, Mohamed Behnassi
    Pages 107-130
  4. A New Framework for a Resilience-Based Disaster Risk Management

    • Adriana Galderisi, Deniz Altay-Kaya
    Pages 131-156
  5. Urban Disaster Management and Resilience

    • Sara Nazif, Mohammad Masoud Mohammadpour Khoie, Saeid Eslamian
    Pages 157-185
  6. Mainstreaming Education Into Disaster Management to Facilitate Disaster Resilience

    • Donkor Felix Kwabena, Mearns Kevin, Ojong-Baa Enokenwa, Henry Bikwibili Tantoh, Ebhuoma Eromose, Abubakar Hadisu et al.
    Pages 223-238
  7. Early Warning Systems to Strengthen the Resilience of Communities to Extreme Events

    • Ron Fisher, Frédéric Petit, Celia Porod
    Pages 239-259
  8. Developing Partnerships for Building Resilience

    • Christian Fjäder
    Pages 261-278
  9. Dealing with Uncertainty Using Fully Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Decision-Making

    • Gabriel A. Bernal, Omar-Darío Cardona, Mabel C. Marulanda, Martha-Liliana Carreño
    Pages 299-340
  10. A Conceptual Unified Model for Assessing Improvements in Sustainability and Resilience in Water Distribution Systems

    • Md Maruf Mortula, Irtishad U. Ahmad, Rehan Sadiq, Salwa Beheiry
    Pages 341-359
  11. Developing Factors for Socio-Ecohydrological Resilience

    • Lauren Victoria Jaramillo, Mark Charles Stone, Melinda Harm Benson
    Pages 387-416

About this book

This book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience. The series aims to fill in gaps in theory and practice in the Sendai Framework, and provides additional resources, methodologies and communication strategies to enhance the plan for action and targets proposed by the Sendai Framework. The series will appeal to a broad range of researchers, academics, students, policy makers and practitioners in engineering, environmental science and geography, geoscience, emergency management, finance, community adaptation, atmospheric science and information technology. 

This volume discusses how to measure and build disaster resilience at society’s capacity, drawing upon individual, institutional and collective resources to cope with and adapt to the demands and challenges of natural disaster occurrences. The book will serve as a guide, outlining the key indicators of disaster resilience in urban and rural settings, and the resources and strategies needed to build resilient communities in accordance with the targets of the Sendai Framework. Readers will learn about multi-risk reduction approaches using computational methods, data mining techniques, and System Thinking at various scales, as well as institutional and infrastructure resilience strategies based on several case studies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center of Excellence in Risk Management and Natural Hazards, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

    Saeid Eslamian

  • McGill University, Montréal, Canada

    Faezeh Eslamian

About the editors

Dr. Saeid Eslamian is a Full Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources Sustainability at Isfahan University of Technology in the Department of Water Engineering. His research focuses mainly on statistical and environmental hydrology and climate change. In particular, he is working on modeling natural hazards including flood, drought, storm, wind, and pollution toward a sustainable environment. Formerly, he was a Visiting Professor at Princeton University, University of ETH Zurich, and McGill University. He has contributed to more than 600 publications in journals, books, or as technical reports, and he is the Founder and Chief Editor of the International Journal of Hydrology Science & Technology. Eslamian is now associate editor of four important publications: Journal of Hydrology (Elsevier), Eco-Hydrology and Hydrobiology (Elsevier), Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination (IWA) and Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences (Elsevier).

Professor Eslamian is theeditor and author of approximately 35 books and 180 chapter books. The editorship of ten handbooks published by Taylor & Francis (CRC Press): the three-volume Handbook of Engineering Hydrology in 2014, Urban Water Reuse Handbook in 2016, Underground Aqueducts Handbook (2017), the three-volume Handbook of Drought and Water Scarcity (2017), Constructed Wetlands: Hydraulic Design (2020) and Handbook of Irrigation System Selection for Semi-Arid Regions (2020). An Evaluation of Groundwater Storage Potentials in a Semiarid Climate and Advances in Hydrogeochemistry Research by Nova Science Publishers (USA) are also his book publications in 2019 and 2020, respectively.

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Softcover Book USD 159.99
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