Climate Events and Disaster Mitigation from Policy to Practice

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Edité par Daya Publishing House, 2018

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Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Climate Change: 1. Changing weather and air quality patterns in Central European and Mediterranean Region/Laszlo Bozo. 2. Global warming and climate change due to poor solid waste management: a growing concern in Indian metropolitans/B C Prabhakar and K N Radhika. 3. The impact of climate change on natural disaster in Iran/M Faravani, R Aghnoum, AA Moayedi and M Ehsan Elahi. 4. Challenges in the implementation of climate change policy of Nepal/J R Pokharel. 5. Mitigating the effects of adverse climatic conditions in Zambia/S Mpanga, M Kaoma, K Zimba and A Zulu. II. Natural Disasters: 6. Natural disasters and climate change in Nigeria: issues and mitigation strategies/Agoro O. 7. Case study of flash flood Assessment of 14th Nov 2014 in Colombo due to short period high intense rainfall/A R Warnasooriya, ACM Rodrigo and KHMS Premalal. 8. Children’s experiences of participation in disaster risk reduction: perspectives from parents and stakeholders in Muzarabani/C Muzenda-Mudavanhu. III. Disaster Management: Practices and Policies: 9. Disaster management practices in Cambodia/V Ung and L Heng An. 10. A synopsis of disaster management in South Africa: An intergovernmental approach to disaster prevention, mitigation and response/D E Mthembu. 11. Possible early warning for landslide in Sri Lanka using ‘Antecedent Daily Rainfall Index’: a case study of Meeriyabedda landslide on 29th Oct 2014/W N S Rupasinghe and KHMS Premalal. 12. Disaster mitigation policies and practices in South Asia with focus on social capital/J K Routray and S Sanyal. 13. Existing National Policies on Natural Disaster Management and Implementation: A case of landslides and mudslides in Uganda/K Mugerwa. IV. Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction: 14. Identification of Indonesian technology readiness in disaster risk reduction/Adawiah, Ophirtus Sumule and Irsan Pawennei. 15. Confiability analysis of the automatic weather stations network of Sri Lanka/N Kumarasinghe. V. Education and Research: 16. Academic hubs: using applied research and community services to build resilience of Nations and Communities to Seismic disasters/ Jalal Al-Dabbeek, Hatim Alwahsh etc. 17. A designing experience of a national research agenda on disaster risk reduction/A Linayo. Index. Climate Change’ is a matter of great concern at the global level since it is leading to causing weather-related disasters and in making communities more vulnerable to the effects of disasters. There is need for disaster mitigation measures to reduce or if possible, totally eliminate the impacts and risks of hazards through proactive measures taken before an emergency or disaster occurs. For alleviating the risk of disaster due to severe climate events, there has been a growing need for a concrete platform to educate and train the individuals and entities in the developing world and network with them to act beyond the disaster management policies. Keeping this in view, the NAM S and T Centre in partnership with the National Science and Technology Commission (NASTEC) of Sri Lanka organised an international workshop on ‘Mitigation of Disasters due to Severe Climate Events: From Policy to Practice’ in Colombo, Sri Lanka during 10-13 March 2016. The workshop was attended by 64 senior professionals from 19 countries - Cambodia, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Thailand, Uganda, Venezuela, Zambia and Zimbabwe, and the host country Sri Lanka for sharing views and experiences for the development of a road map for reducing the risks in real situations.…

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Titre
Climate Events and Disaster Mitigation from Policy to Practice
Auteur
Alejandro Linayo Rivero, Biswajeet Pradhan and Jayant K. Routray
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Daya Publishing House
Année de publication
2018
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anglais
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9351248690
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9789351248699
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