About this book series
Just the first one and one-half decades of this new century have witnessed a series of large-scale, unprecedented disasters in different regions of the globe, both natural and human-triggered, some quite new and others conventional. Unfortunately, this adds to the evidence of the urgent need to address such crises as time passes. It is now commonly accepted that disaster risk reduction (DRR) requires tackling the various factors that influence a society’s vulnerability to disasters in an integrated and comprehensive way, and with due attention to the limited resources at our disposal. Thus, integrated disaster risk management (IDRiM) is essential. Success will require integration of disciplines, stakeholders, different levels of government, and of global, regional, national, local, and individual efforts. In any particular disaster-prone area, integration is also crucial in the long-enduring processes of managing risks and critical events before, during, and after disasters.
Although the need for integrated disaster risk management is widely recognized, there are still considerable gaps between theory and practice. Civil protection authorities; government agencies in charge of delineating economic, social, urban, or environmental policies; city planning, water and waste-disposal departments; health departments, and others often work independently and without consideration of the hazards in their own and adjacent territories or the risk to which they may be unintentionally subjecting their citizens. Typically, disaster and development tend to be in mutual conflict but should, and could, be creatively governed to harmonize both, thanks to technological innovation as well as the design of new institutions.
Thus, many questions on how to implement integrated disaster risk management in different contexts, across different hazards, and interrelated issues remain. Furthermore, the need to document and learn from successfully applied risk reduction initiatives, including the methodologies or processes used, the resources, the context, and other aspects are imperative to avoid duplication and the repetition of mistakes.
With a view to addressing the above concerns and issues, the International Society of Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM) was established in October 2009.
- Electronic ISSN
- 2509-7105
- Print ISSN
- 2509-7091
- Editor-in-Chief
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- Norio Okada
- Series Editor
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- Aniello Amendola,
- Adam Rose,
- Ana Maria Cruz
Book titles in this series
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Extreme and Systemic Risk Analysis
A Loss Distribution Approach
- Authors:
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- Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
- Copyright: 2020
Available Renditions
- Hard cover
- Soft cover
- eBook
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Disaster Risk Communication
A Challenge from a Social Psychological Perspective
- Editors:
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- Katsuya Yamori
- Copyright: 2020
Available Renditions
- Hard cover
- eBook
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Defining and Measuring Economic Resilience from a Societal, Environmental and Security Perspective
- Authors:
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- Adam Rose
- Copyright: 2017
Available Renditions
- Hard cover
- Soft cover
- eBook
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Economic Consequence Analysis of Disasters
The E-CAT Software Tool
- Authors:
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- Adam Rose
- Fynnwin Prager
- Zhenhua Chen
- Samrat Chatterjee
- Copyright: 2017
Available Renditions
- Hard cover
- Soft cover
- eBook
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- Astrophysics Data System (ADS)