Identifying Emerging Issues in Disaster Risk Reduction, Migration, Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Shaping Debates and Policies

Book Overview

1. Exploring linkages between disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, migration and sustainable development.- 2. Human mobility in a socio-environmental context: complex effects on environmental risk.- Part 1. Disaster risk reduction.- 3. Disaster risk reduction in the era of 'homeland security'; the struggle for precautionary, preventive, and non-violent approaches.- 4. Water related risks in the area of Dakar, Senegal: coastal aquifers exposed to climate change and rapid urban development.- 5. Dike Risk: Revealing the academic links between disaster risk reduction, sustainable development, climate change and migration.- 6. Jakarta - Mumbai: Two Megacities Facing Floods Engaged In A Marginalization Process Of Slum Areas.- 7. The Necessity of Early Warning Articulated Systems (EWASs): Critical Issues Beyond Response.- Part 2. Migration.- 8. Applications of disaster risk reduction principles and operational mechanisms to migration in contexts of instability.- 9. Linking migration, mobility and development for strengthening adaptation to climate and disaster risks. Reflections from Nepal.- 10. Overcoming Land Tenure Barriers in Shelter and other Reconstruction Activities in Post-Disaster Settings.- 11. Impacts of Outmigration on Land Management in a Nepali Mountain Area.- Part 3. Climate change adaptation.- 12. Reflections on disaster diplomacy for climate change and migration.- 13. Local Knowledge For Addressing Climate Change Risks At Local Level - A Case Study from Nepal.- 14. Building Farm Resilience in a Changing Climate: Challenges, Potentials, and Ways Forward for Smallholder Cocoa Production in Bolivia.- 15. The role of traditional knowledge to frame understanding of migration as adaptation to the "slow disaster" of sea level rise in the South Pacific.- 16. Conclusions - linking sustainable development, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, migration and resilience - policy implications.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319816233
• ISBN13: 9783319816234
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"