Risks and conflicts local responses to natural disasters /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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United Kingdom :
Emerald,
2013.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Community, environment and disaster risk management ;
v. 14. |
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| Online Access: | Full text available on ProQuest |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Local responses to natural disasters: issues and challenges / Andreas Neef and Rajib Shaw
- Part I: Post-disaster response and recovery at the local level
- Chapter 2: The relationship between community support and resident behavior after the Tohoku Pacific earthquake: the case of Hitachi City in Ibaraki Prefecture / Tomoko Kubo, Toshiki Yamamoto, Michihiro Mashita, Misao Hashimoto, Konstantin Greger, Tom Waldichuk and Keisuke Matsui
- Chapter 3. Filling the gaps from the Christchurch earthquakes 2010-2013: greening the rubble and the Mt. Pleasant community response plan as two local initiatives / Roy Montgomery
- Chapter 4. The role of social capital in post-flood response and recovery among downstream communities of the Ba River, western Viti Levu, Fiji Islands / Othniel Yila, Eberhard Weber and Andreas Neef
- Chapter 5. The interplay between collective action, individual strategies and state intervention in mitigating flood disasters in the uplands of north Thailand and northwest Vietnam / Andreas Neef, Peter Elstner and Iven Schad
- Chapter 6. Farmers' response to drought in northwestern Bangladesh / Umma Habiba and Rajib Shaw
- Part II: Adaptation and risk reduction strategies as local responses to disasters
- Chapter 7. People's perception on natural disasters and local survival strategies in Sundarban region: a study of Gosaba Block in south Twenty Four Parganas district in west Bengal, India / Tarun Kumar Mondal
- Chapter 8. Impact of social capital on local communities' response to floods in southern Poland / Jaroslaw Dzialek, Wojciech Biernacki and Anita Bokwa
- Chapter 9. Enhancing local responses through disaster resilience in schools and communities in Japan / Rajib Shaw and Shohei Matsuura
- Chapter 10. Risk communication through community-based society organizations as local response to disaster in Bandung, Indonesia / Fara Mulyasari and Rajib Shaw
- Chapter 11. Communicating climate change and its impact to Dhaka's urban poor
- grassroot workshops for adults and children / Annika Salingre and Boris Braun.