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Case Studies in Disaster Mitigation and Prevention
Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation series
1st Edition - December 3, 2022
Editors: Himanshu Grover, Tanveer Islam, Jean Slick
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:9780128095287
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eBook ISBN:9780128095393
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Case Studies in Disaster Mitigation and Prevention: Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation series presents cases illustrating efforts to reduce human and material losses associated with disasters. This volume demonstrates that mitigation is an ongoing phase in which communities continually pursue long-term hazard resistance and reduction. Cases illustrate the importance of risk assessment in the development of mitigation strategies through hazard mapping and multi-hazard mitigation planning. Cases also illustrate approaches to reduction risk through structural and non-structural means, giving consideration to benefits or limitations of these strategies in different contexts.
The contributions of different mitigation activities to disaster risk reduction efforts are examined using the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Presents in-depth cases studies in disaster mitigation, one of the phases of disaster management
Unites practice and research from multiple disciplines to highlight the complexity of disaster mitigation, including environmental and earth sciences, engineering, public health, geography, sociology, and anthropology
Examines policy and ethical dilemmas faced by decision makers in disaster situations
Researchers in disaster and emergency management, secondary audience as supplemental text in graduate courses in disaster and emergency management
Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Disaster and Emergency Management: Case studies in adaptation and innovation
Copyright
Dedication
List of contributors
About the series editors
Case studies in disaster and emergency management
Prevention and mitigation volume introduction
Chapter 1. Current and future directions in hazard mitigation policy
Case summary
State-of-the practice overview
Adaptation and innovation characteristics
Case description
Discussion
Conclusions
Chapter 2. Community based mitigation strategies: building resilience in rural Appalachia
Case summary
State of the practice overview
Adaptation and innovation characteristics
Case description
Community mitigation needs assessment and development of community partnerships
Community survey
Policy analysis project
Discussion
Conclusions
Appendix A: questions from the community survey administered to City of Radford residents
Chapter 3. Reducing risk through public engagement in hazard mitigation plans
Case summary
State of the practice overview
Adaptation and innovation characteristics
Case description
Summary
Conclusion
Links to plans
Chapter 4. Planning through narratives: participatory tools and disaster risk reduction
Case summary
State of the practice overview
Adaptation and innovation characteristics
Case description
Discussion
Conclusions
Recommended readings
Chapter 5. Rehabilitation as a means for building long-term resilience: A case study of Odisha Disaster Recovery Project
Case Summary
State of the practice overview
Adaptation and innovation characteristics
Case description
History of extreme events and interventions in Odisha
Odisha Disaster Recovery Project
Discussion
Chapter 6. Notes from the underground: adapting a century old apartment building in New York city's lower east side to the floodplain
Case summary
State of the practice overview
Adaptation and innovation characteristics
Case description
NYC's multifamily housing
Superstorm Sandy
Discussion
Financing resilience
Conclusion
Chapter 7. Cloud-based innovations for syndromic surveillance: lessons from the world's largest mass gatherings
Case summary
Adaptation and innovation characteristics
Conclusion
Disclosures
Chapter 8. Planning for resilient urban infrastructure: a case study of Hoboken, New Jersey
Case summary
State of the practice overview
Adaptation and innovation characteristics
Case description
Discussion
Conclusion
Interviews
Index
No. of pages: 250
Language: English
Edition: 1
Published: December 3, 2022
Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
Paperback ISBN: 9780128095287
eBook ISBN: 9780128095393
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Himanshu Grover
Himanshu Grover is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington. His research focuses primarily on the fields of disaster and emergency management (DEM), and community resilience. He has authored and co-authored more than 20 articles and book chapters in these fields, contributed to the development of graduate and undergraduate coursework, received state and federal funding, and presently co-leads a national level research center focusing of hazard mitigation and disaster prevention.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington, USA
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Tanveer Islam
Tanveer Islam is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Management and Public Administration at Jacksonville State University, where he teaches hazard mitigation, community resilience and GIS courses. He received a PhD in land use planning from Texas Tech University and did postdoctoral research at Texas A&M marine branch in Galveston and at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Environmental Cooperative Science Center. He is also a certified floodplain manager.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Management, Jacksonville State University, AL, USA
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Jean Slick
Jean Slick is a Professor Emerita and Director for Center for Disaster and Community Resilience at Royal Roads University in Victoria, Canada, where she was previously the Director of the Disaster Management program. Previously she held a range of leadership positions in the Canadian Red Cross, including Director of Disaster Management and International Services for Western Canada. In 2004, she was posted to Indonesia for two years as the country representative for the Canadian Red Cross tsunami recovery program.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emerita and Director for Center for Disaster and Community Resilience, Royal Roads University, Victoria, Canada
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