| Description |
1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations, tables. |
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polychrome |
| Series |
Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management,
2040-7262 ;
Volume 17
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Community, environment and disaster risk management ; Volume 17.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Local disaster risk management in Central America -- Incorporating climate hazards into national disaster risk management -- Incorporating climate hazards into local development planning -- Elements for sustainable community-based disaster risk management -- Climate change perception and local risk awareness for sustainable community-based disaster risk management -- Factors for enhancing local DRM capacity -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
Disasters cause economic as well as human losses. Indeed, economic losses associated directly with disasters have continued at increasing proportions worldwide since the 1970s, as the 2011 Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction conducted by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) illustrates. Disaster losses due to single geological events sometimes appear much greater in magnitude than those attributed to climate-related disasters. Nonetheless, the overall trend for increasing loss can largely be attributed to the increase in climate-related disasters, which in turn is triggered in part by global climate change. Furthermore, as such disasters increase in frequency, it intensifies vulnerability in the poorest regions of developing countries. In this book, the authors discuss effective approaches to enhancing the local disaster risk management (DRM) capacity of developing countries to combat increasing climate-related disaster impacts. Also provided are ideas and lessons on local disaster risk management, in terms of planning and practice in developing countries, with particular focus on a case study in Costa Rica. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Environmental degradation.
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Environmental degradation. |
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Environmental protection.
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Environmental protection. |
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Global warming.
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Global warming. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Shaw, Rajib, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hori, Tsuneki. Local disaster risk management in a changing climate : perspective from Central America. Bingley, England : Emerald, ©2014 xxiv, 192 pages Community, environment and disaster risk management ; Volume 17 9781783509355 |
| ISBN |
9781783509362 (electronic book) |
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1783509368 (electronic book) |
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178350935X |
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9781783509355 |
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9781783509355 |
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