Overview
- Evaluates the impact of external interventions on local communities with regard to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
- Highlights local community perspectives, including their perceptions, concerns, awareness, realizations, and reactions to external assistance and support from around the world
- Shares successful practical experiences to promote necessary changes in the current planning, management, and governance of human settlements to reduce future disaster risks
Part of the book series: Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements (ACHS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Enhancing Community Resilience
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Addressing Urban Risks
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Adapting with Climate Change Impacts
Keywords
- Community vulnerability
- Haor communities
- Disaster management
- Community resilience
- Disaster prone coastal areas
- Early warning systems
- Bush fire incidents
- Rohingya shelters
- Cyclone shelters
- Rapid urbanization
- Urban slums
- Rohingya refugee
- Urban disaster risk
- Built environment
- Post-Disaster resettlement
- Climate induced disasters
- Cox's bazaar
- landscape/regional and urban planning
- climate change impacts
- remote sensing/photogrammetry
About this book
This book offers valuable insights and lessons learned, in an effort to promote and guide innovative changes in the current planning, management and governance of human settlements, helping them face the future challenges of a changing environment.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mr. Ghani is employed as a lecturer at the Department of Architecture, BRAC University and at present is working as the director of its Postgraduate Programs in Disaster Management. He completed his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering Technology specializing on urban mixed-use developments. He has served as architectural consultant for numerous building and interior design projects all over Bangladesh. He was also part of post-cyclone reconstruction projects for rural communities. Before joining BRAC University, he served as a faculty at Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka. His Masters research, done at BRAC University, was on Post-disaster reconstruction. His research interests include culturally appropriate interventions, risk reduction and development, sustainableurbanism and housing, housing and context, heritage and cultural landscapes at risk, etc.​
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: External Interventions for Disaster Risk Reduction
Book Subtitle: Impacts on Local Communities
Editors: Imon Chowdhooree, Shams Mansoor Ghani
Series Title: Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4948-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4947-2Published: 30 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4950-2Published: 30 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-4948-9Published: 29 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2198-2546
Series E-ISSN: 2198-2554
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 296
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 56 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry