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Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia

Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia

by Akhilesh Surjan (Author), Atta-ur-Rahman (Author), Rajib Shaw (Author), Gulsan Ara Parvin (Author)

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Synopsis

Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia presents the latest information on the intensity and frequency of disasters. Specifically, the fact that, in urban areas, more than 50% of the world's population is living on just 2% of the land surface, with most of these cities located in Asia and developing countries that have high vulnerability and intensification. The book offers an in-depth and multidisciplinary approach to reducing the impact of disasters by examining specific evidence from events in these areas that can be used to develop best practices and increase urban resilience worldwide. As urban resilience is largely a function of resilient and resourceful citizens, building cities which are more resilient internally and externally can lead to more productive economic returns. In an era of rapid urbanization and increasing disaster risks and vulnerabilities in Asian cities, Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia is an invaluable tool for policy makers, researchers, and practitioners working in both public and private sectors.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Published: 12 Jan 2016
ISBN 10: 0128021691
ISBN 13: 9780128021699
Book Overview: A pioneering reference guide that provides evidence-based data to improve disaster resiliency in urban Asia

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Westerners in particular have much to learn from a book with the words 'Asia' and 'resilience' in the title...As the career paths of security personnel become increasingly unpredictable, it will do no harm to sample the flavors of urban disasters and resilience offered in this book. --Security Management
Author Bio
Rajib Shaw is Professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance in Keio University, Japan. He has worked closely with the local communities, NGOs, governments and international organization, including United Nations, especially in Asian countries. His research interests are: community based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education. He is currently the member of UN ISDR Science Technology Advisory Group (STAG), and Co-chair of UN ISDR Science Technology Academia Stakeholder Group. Professor Shaw has extensive publications in different journals, books and edited volumes. Atta-ur-Rahman is Associate Professor in the Institute of Geography, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Peshawar, Pakistan. He recently completed his post-Doctoral studies on modeling disaster risk at Kyoto University, Japan. He is also a visiting faculty in the Centre for Disaster Preparedness and Management, University of Peshawar, Pakistan. He specializes in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Environmental Impact Assessment. He is working with international organizations on various aspects of DRR and supervising research students in the field of disaster risk management. He is member of editorial board of reputed journals and has authored books and numerous research articles in prestigious journals. Dr. Akhilesh Surjan has successfully engaged with issues of climate and disaster risk reduction and urban environmental management. He served as a Lead Author for the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He also served as Contributing Author for the UN's Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, published in May 2011. While mainly associated with UN agencies, Dr Surjan has also successfully worked in academic, civil society, and government institutions in Asia. In the past, he has deliberated upon risk management issues from the platform of Disaster Management Institute, Bhopal (India)- established in the aftermath of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy of 1984. Under UNDP's Disaster Risk Management Program, he facilitated mainstreaming of community-based disaster preparedness concepts in Indian government's policy, planning, and implementation. At United Nations University and Kyoto University, Dr Surjan's contributions were directed towards issues of urban sustainability, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. He is particularly focusing on issues surrounding sustainability of development, and adaptation concerns of emerging cities. Presently working with the Charles Darwin University, Dr Surjan is the Research & Theme Leader of Humanitarian, Emergency and Disaster Management Studies. Dr Surjan was trained at Kyoto University where he successfully completed his doctoral study, an empirical action-research focusing on resilience to environment and disaster risk reduction in the Asia-Pacific region. Dr Surjan is also a trained architect-planner - an interest zone that keeps him enthused when free. Gulsan Ara Parvin is researcher in the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies of Kyoto University, Japan. She has 12 years of teaching and research experience at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). She was an Associate Professor in the Urban and Regional Planning Department of BUET. Dr. Parvin was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to conduct research at Kyoto University from 2007 to 2010. She obtained her Ph.D degree from the Urban Engineering Department of the University of Tokyo in 2003 and M.Sc degree from Agriculture Conservation and Rural Development Program of Asian Institute of Technology in 1999. She acquired her BURP degree from Khulna University, Bangladesh. She has several publications in international journals and journals. Her research interests mostly concentrate on community development, vulnerability and disaster management for the poor, climate change impact and adaptation, women's empowerment, and the role of NGOs.