
Investing in Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience
Design, Methods and Knowledge in the face of Climate Change
- 1st Edition - March 15, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: A. Nuno Martins, Gonzalo Lizarralde, Temitope Egbelakin, Liliane Hobeica, Jose Manuel Mendes, Adib Hobeica
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 6 3 9 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 7 3 5 - 7
Disaster prevention and the mitigation of climate change effects call for global action. Joint efforts are required among countries, economic sectors, and public and private st… Read more
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Request a sales quoteDisaster prevention and the mitigation of climate change effects call for global action. Joint efforts are required among countries, economic sectors, and public and private stakeholders. Not surprisingly, international organizations, such as the United Nations agencies, propose policy frameworks aimed at worldwide influence. The 2015–2030 Sendai Framework seeks to create consensus about the need to act for disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation. A key goal is to promote investments in risk reduction and resilience. But how useful is this policy framework? What does it say, and what does it overlook? How can it be implemented among vulnerable communities, in historic sites, and in other sensitive locations affected by disasters?
In this book, prominent scholars and practitioners examine the successes and failures of the Sendai Framework. Their case studies show that, despite its good intentions, the Framework achieves very little. The main reason is that, while avoiding a political engagement, it fails to deal with disasters’ root causes and guide the difficult path of effective implementation. The authors bring a fresh look to international policy and design practices, highlighting cross-disciplinary research avenues, and ideas and methods for low-income communities, cities and heritage sites in Portugal, Haiti, the United States, the Philippines, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, among other countries.Global action requires collaboration between heterogeneous stakeholders, but also the recognition of inequalities, power imbalances, and social and environmental injustices.
- Analyzes outcomes and drawbacks of implementing the third priority of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
- Presents real-life attempts to increase risk resilience and climate-change adaptation, both before and after disasters
- Addresses design as a means to build resilience in community and heritage interventions
- Calls for embracing the complexities and dynamic character of DRR and climate-change knowledge, investment, and communication
Academics in disaster management, policymakers, architects, planners, NGO collaborators, humanitarian-aid workers, and risk practitioners in general
Foreword
Allan Lavell
Introduction
Investing in disaster risk consultants and visibility
Gonzalo Lizarralde
Part A Investing in design for disaster risk reduction
1. Investing in community participation for disaster recovery
Arlene Christy D. Lusterio, Geraldine R. Matabang and M.A. Theresa Amor J. Tan Singco
2. Investing in the social places of heritage towns
Tomoko Kano, Takae Tanaka and Momoyo Gota
3. Investing in contingency in a heritage site
Liliane Hobeica and Adib Hobeica
Part B Investing in new methods for resilience
4. Physical services index for flooding hazards
Charlotte Kendra Gotangco and Jairus Carmela Josol
5. Resilience planning in antagonistic communities
Stephen Buckman
6. Systems thinking toward climate resilience
Olalekan Adekola and Jessica Lamond
7. Assessing urban resilience to cope with climate change
Maria Adriana Cardoso, Maria do Céu Almeida, Maria João Telhado, Marco Morais and Rita Salgado Brito
Part C Building knowledge on disaster risk reduction investment
8. Incentives for retrofitting heritage buildings in New Zealand
Temitope Egbelakin, Olabode Ogunmakinde and Sandra Carrasco
9. Dissatisfaction after postdisaster resettlement
Pournima Sridarran, Kaushal Keraminiyage and Dilanthi Amaratunga
10. The media coverage of climate change in Portugal
Alexandre Oliveira Tavares, Neide Portela Areia, José Manuel Mendes and Hugo Pinto
11. Investing in flood adaptation in Jakarta, Indonesia
Gusti Ayu Ketut Surtiari, Matthias Garschagen, José Manuel Mendes and Yus Budiyono
Conclusion
Moving from frameworks to action: The importance of context-driven investments to deal with disasters’ root causes
A. Nuno Martins, Gonzalo Lizarralde, Temitope Egbelakin, Liliane Hobeica, José Manuel Mendes and Adib Hobeica
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 15, 2022
- No. of pages (Paperback): 320
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128186398
- eBook ISBN: 9780128187357
AM
A. Nuno Martins
GL
Gonzalo Lizarralde
TE
Temitope Egbelakin
LH
Liliane Hobeica
JM
Jose Manuel Mendes
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