Integrated River Basin Management for Effective Flood Risk Reduction

This invaluable book describes innovative findings of integrated river basin management with specific emphasis on flood risk reduction. This book also presents the method and application of the participatory GIS and remote sensing for disaster risk assessment, which is one of the pioneering approaches in the field of flood risk and river basin management. An integrated model for flood risk reduction developed in this book can be applicable to other regions with similar context. This highly original research in this book tackles the issue of how people at community level deal with severely increased disaster impacts, and how the larger macro political economy encounters this dilemma phenomenon, and the options for amelioration within the context of developing countries. There are three main topics in the book: (i) examine the disaster and environment linkages at local context, (ii) analyze the common perceptions and scientific evidences of those linkages; and (iii) assess the impact of the disaster on environment and socio-economy and recommend the solutions to sustainably reduce the adverse disaster impacts.

Tran Van Giai Phong : Consultant, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, Bangkok
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Rajib Shaw : Associate Processor, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan