This book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience. The series aims to fill in gaps in theory and practice in the Sendai Framework, and provides additional resources, methodologies, and communication strategies to enhance the plan for action and targets proposed by the Sendai Framework. The series will appeal to a broad range of researchers, academics, students, policy makers, and practitioners in engineering, environmental science and geography, geoscience, emergency management, finance, community adaptation, atmospheric science, and information technology.
This volume offers indigenous approaches to disaster risk reduction, community sustainability and climate change resilience, as well as agro-ecological innovations for improving resilience to climate change. The focus is on adaptation strategies for sustainable terrestrial and marine ecosystems to reduce the impacts of anthropogenic factors that exacerbate disaster risk, including hydro-meteorological services for climate resilience, food security measures in agriculture and livestock, flood mitigation plans, and increased climate change education and awareness. The book concludes with three case studies in Africa detailing the impacts of strengthened climate change resilience measures, adaptive social protections, and improved water availability through hydro-electric technologies.
Dr. Saeid Eslamian received his PhD from the Department of Civil Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia, in 1995. He is now a Full Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources Sustainability at Isfahan University of Technology, the Director of the Excellence Center in Risk Analysis and Natural Hazards, and Chief of the Specialized Group on Water Resources Policy and Management, Research Center of Water and Wastewater. Formerly, he was a V. Professor at Princeton University, United States, University of ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Recently, he has been awarded as one of the World's Top 2% Scientists from Stanford University and is being Awarded as a High-level Jury Member and Invited Dialogue Person for the related organizations of the United Nations. Prof. Eslamian is the Founder and Chief Editor of the International Journal of Hydrological Science and Technology (Interscience) and Water Productivity Journal. Prof. Eslamian is also an editorial board member and reviewer for more than 150 Web of Science (ISI) Journals. He has contributed to more than 1K publications in journals, books, and technical reports, including publications from Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Taylor and Francis, and IWA.
