Disaster Resilience and Sustainability

Adaptation for Sustainable Development

Sangam Shrestha, Riyanti Djalante, Rajib Shaw, Indrajit Pal
Elsevier S&T
834 pages
ISBN: 978-0323851954
June 2021

Disaster risk reduction and resilience requires participation of a wide array of stakeholders, ranging from academicians to policy makers to disaster managers. This book 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.