Case Studies in Disaster Mitigation and Prevention: Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation series presents cases illustrating efforts to reduce human and material losses associated with disasters. This volume 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 in the development of mitigation strategies through hazard mapping and multi-hazard mitigation planning. Cases also illustrate approaches to reduction risk through structural and non-structural means, giving consideration to benefits or limitations of these strategies in different contexts.
The contributions of different mitigation activities to disaster risk reduction efforts are examined using the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
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Table of Contents
Historical Perspectives on the State of Mitigation Practices 1. Current and Future Directions in Hazard Mitigation Policy
Mitigation Decision Making 2. Reducing Risk Through Public Engagement in Hazard Mitigation Plans 3. Community Based Disaster Mitigation and Preparedness Strategies in Rural Communities 4. Planning through Narratives: Participatory Tool and Disaster Risk Reduction
Emerging Issues 5. Odisha Disaster Recovery Project 6. Water Sensitive Mexico City 7. Futureproofing New York City Housing 8. EMcounter 9. Planning for Resilient Urban Infrastructure
Authors
Himanshu Grover Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington, USA. Himanshu Grover is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington. His research focuses primarily on the fields of disaster and emergency management (DEM), and community resilience. He has authored and co-authored more than 20 articles and book chapters in these fields, contributed to the development of graduate and undergraduate coursework, received state and federal funding, and presently co-leads a national level research center focusing of hazard mitigation and disaster prevention. Tanveer Islam Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Management, Jacksonville State University, AL, USA. Tanveer Islam is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Management and Public Administration at Jacksonville State University, where he teaches hazard mitigation, community resilience and GIS courses. He received a PhD in land use planning from Texas Tech University and did postdoctoral research at Texas A&M marine branch in Galveston and at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Environmental Cooperative Science Center. He is also a certified floodplain manager. Jean Slick Professor Emerita and Director for Center for Disaster and Community Resilience, Royal Roads University, Victoria, Canada.Jean Slick is a Professor Emerita and Director for Center for Disaster and Community Resilience at Royal Roads University in Victoria, Canada, where she was previously the Director of the Disaster Management program. Previously she held a range of leadership positions in the Canadian Red Cross, including Director of Disaster Management and International Services for Western Canada. In 2004, she was posted to Indonesia for two years as the country representative for the Canadian Red Cross tsunami recovery program.
