Multi-Hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building

The short-term consequences of climate change and its impending risk has catastrophic and wide-ranging implications on society. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction calls for dedicated actions to tackle disaster risk drivers. Multi-hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building brings together discussion on various multi-disciplinary issues that focuses on Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development. The book focuses on various dimensions of existing and future risk scenarios and provides concerted efforts of the scientific communities to find new adaptation methods.Disaster risk reduction and resilience requires participation of wide array of stakeholders ranging from academicians to policy makers to disaster managers. Multi-hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building offers evidence-based, problem-solving techniques from social, natural, engineering and other disciplinary perspectives. It connects data, research, conceptual work with practical cases on disaster risk management, capturing the multi-sectoral aspects of disaster resilience, adaptation strategy and sustainability. Provides foundational knowledge on integrated disaster vulnerability and resilience building Brings together disaster risk reduction and resilience scientists, policy-makers, and practitioners from different disciplines Includes case studies on disaster resilience and sustainable development from a multi-disciplinary perspective