Title: Local Disaster Risk Management In A Changing Climate: Perspective From Central America (Community, Environment And Disaster Risk Management)
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication Date: 2014
Language: English
ISBN 10: 178350935X
ISBN 13: 9781783509355
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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"Disasters cause economic as well as human losses. Indeed, economic losses associated directly with disasters have continued at increasing proportions worldwide since the 1970s, as the 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction conducted by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) illustrates. Disaster losses due to single geological events sometimes appear much greater in magnitude than those attributed to climate-related disasters. Nonetheless, the overall trend for increasing loss can largely be attributed to the increase in climate-related disasters, which in turn is triggered in part by global climate change. Furthermore, as such disasters increase in frequency, it intensifies vulnerability in the poorest regions of developing countries. In this book, the authors discuss effective approaches to enhancing the local disaster risk management (DRM) capacity of developing countries to combat increasing climate-related disaster impacts. Also provided are ideas and lessons on local disaster risk management, in terms of planning and practice in developing countries, with particular focus on a case study in Costa Rica."

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Hori Tsuneki - Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Rajib Shaw - Kyoto University

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