Disaster Risk and Vulnerability: Mitigation through Mobilizing Communities and Partnerships 9780773587069

Table of contents :
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Dealing with Disaster Risk and Vulnerability: People, Community, and Resilience Perspectives
Part one - Conceptual Considerations in Risk and Vulnerability Reduction
1 - Understanding Uncertainty and Reducing Vulnerability: Lessons from Resilience Thinking
2 - Community-Level Emergency Management: Placing Social Capital
3 - Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction: Realizing the Primacy of Community
Part two - International Perspectives on Disaster Risk Management and Public Policies
4 - The Intersection of Policies on Disaster Management, Climate Change, and International Development
5 - Mountain Hazards and the Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems: Examples from India and Canada
6 - Grassroots Participation versus Dictated Partnership: Anatomy of the Turkish Risk Management Reality
7 - Disaster Management and Public Policies in Bangladesh: Institutional Partnerships in Cyclone Hazards Mitigation and Response
Part three - Natural Hazards and Emergency Management in Canada
8 - Emergency Management Education in Canada: A View from the Crossroads
9 - Public and Expert Knowledge and Perception of Climate Change–Induced Disaster Risk: Canadian Prairie Perspectives
10 - Natural Hazard Identification, Mapping, and Vulnerability Assessment in Atlantic Canada: Progress and Challenges
11 - Infrastructure Failure Interdependencies in Extreme Events: The 1998 Ice Storm
Contributors

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