Case Studies in Disaster Mitigation and Prevention

Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation Series

Himanshu Grover, Tanveer Islam, Jean Slick
Elsevier
250 pages
ISBN: 9780128095287
December 2022

This book presents cases illustrating efforts to reduce human and material losses associated with disasters. It 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 through hazard mapping and multi-hazard mitigation planning and the reduction of risk through structural and non-structural means.