Devastation! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Devastation! write by Lesley Newson. This book was released on 1998. Devastation! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Easy-to-follow explanations help you understand the underlying causes of all types of disasters.
Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters
Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters write by World Bank. This book was released on 2010-11-10. Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines how to ensure that the preventive measures are worthwhile and effective, and how people can make decisions individually and collectively at different levels of government.
Unbreakable
Unbreakable - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unbreakable write by Stephane Hallegatte. This book was released on 2016-11-24. Unbreakable available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Economic losses from natural disasters totaled $92 billion in 2015.' Such statements, all too commonplace, assess the severity of disasters by no other measure than the damage inflicted on buildings, infrastructure, and agricultural production. But $1 in losses does not mean the same thing to a rich person that it does to a poor person; the gravity of a $92 billion loss depends on who experiences it. By focusing on aggregate losses—the traditional approach to disaster risk—we restrict our consideration to how disasters affect those wealthy enough to have assets to lose in the first place, and largely ignore the plight of poor people. This report moves beyond asset and production losses and shifts its attention to how natural disasters affect people’s well-being. Disasters are far greater threats to well-being than traditional estimates suggest. This approach provides a more nuanced view of natural disasters than usual reporting, and a perspective that takes fuller account of poor people’s vulnerabilities. Poor people suffer only a fraction of economic losses caused by disasters, but they bear the brunt of their consequences. Understanding the disproportionate vulnerability of poor people also makes the case for setting new intervention priorities to lessen the impact of natural disasters on the world’s poor, such as expanding financial inclusion, disaster risk and health insurance, social protection and adaptive safety nets, contingent finance and reserve funds, and universal access to early warning systems. Efforts to reduce disaster risk and poverty go hand in hand. Because disasters impoverish so many, disaster risk management is inseparable from poverty reduction policy, and vice versa. As climate change magnifies natural hazards, and because protection infrastructure alone cannot eliminate risk, a more resilient population has never been more critical to breaking the cycle of disaster-induced poverty.
World Atlas of Natural Disaster Risk
World Atlas of Natural Disaster Risk - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook World Atlas of Natural Disaster Risk write by Peijun Shi. This book was released on 2015-03-11. World Atlas of Natural Disaster Risk available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first English-language atlas to systematically introduce the environment, hazard, vulnerability and risk mapping for 11 natural disasters, i.e. earthquake, volcano, landslide, flood, storm surge, sand-dust storm, tropical cyclone, heat wave, cold wave, drought and wildfire, and risk mapping for multi-hazard disaster in the world. The above 11 hazards are assessed and mapped at grid unit, comparable-geographic unit and national unit, and the multi-hazard is assessed and mapped at grid unit and national unit. The expected annual mortality and/or affected population risks and expected annual economic loss and/or affected property risk of 11 hazards and multi-hazard of the world at national level are unprecedentedly derived and ranked. The atlas can be a good reference for researchers and students in the field of natural disaster risk management and risk governance, and enterpriser and risk manager as well to understand the global natural disaster risk. Prof. Peijun Shi works at Beijing Normal University, China; Prof. Roger Kasperson works at Clark University, USA.
After Great Disasters
After Great Disasters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After Great Disasters write by Laurie A. Johnson. This book was released on 2017. After Great Disasters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Great natural disasters are rare, but their aftermath can change the fortunes of a city or region forever. This book and its companion Policy Focus Report identify lessons from different parts of the world to help communities and government leaders better organize for recovery after future disasters. The authors consider the processes and outcomes of community recovery and reconstruction following major disasters in six countries: China, New Zealand, India, Indonesia, Japan, and the United States. Post-disaster reconstruction offers opportunities to improve construction and design standards, renew infrastructure, create new land use arrangements, reinvent economies, and improve governance. If done well, reconstruction can help break the cycle of disaster-related impacts and losses, and improve the resilience of a city or region.
