Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Tables ix
5. Foreword xi
6. Acknowledgments xv
7. Dealing with Disaster Risk and Vulnerability: People, Community, and Resilience Perspectives 3
8. Conceptual Considerations in Risk and Vulnerability Reduction
9. Understanding Uncertainty and Reducing Vulnerability: Lessons from Resilience Thinking 27
10. Community-Level Emergency Management: Placing Social Capital 45
11. Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction: Realizing the Primacy of Community 71
12. International Perspectives on Disaster Risk Management and Public Policies
13. The Intersection of Policies on Disaster Management, Climate Change, and International Development 93
14. Mountain Hazards and the Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems: Examples from India and Canada 108
15. Grassroots Participation Versus Dictated Partnership: Anatomy of the Turkish Risk Management Reality 137
16. Disaster Management and Public Policies in Bangladesh: Institutional Partnerships in Cyclone Hazards Mitigation and Response 154
17. Natural Hazards and Emergency Management in Canada
18. Emergency Management Education in Canada: A View from the Crossroads 185
19. Public and Expert Knowledge and Perception of Climate Change–Induced Disaster Risk: Canadian Prairie Perspectives 200
20. Natural Hazard Identification, Mapping, and Vulnerability Assessment in Atlantic Canada: Progress and Challenges 235
21. Infrastructure Failure Interdependencies in Extreme Events: The 1998 Ice Storm 275
22. Contributors 295