Local Disaster Risk Management in a Changing Climate: Perspective from Central America: 17 (Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management) - Tapa dura

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9781783509355: Local Disaster Risk Management in a Changing Climate: Perspective from Central America: 17 (Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management)
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ISBN 10: 178350935X ISBN 13: 9781783509355
Editorial: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2014

Sinopsis

Disasters cause economic as well as human losses, and the magnitude of this is ever increasing. This can largely be attributed to climate-related disasters, which intensify vulnerability in the poorest areas of the world. In this book, approaches to disaster risk management in developing countries are discussed, with particular focus on Costa Rica.

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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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Editorial
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
178350935X
ISBN 13 
9781783509355
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
218
Editor
Tsuneki Hori, Shaw Rajib
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