International Society for
Integrated Disaster Risk
Management

IDRiM Newsletter
Issue 19, March 2020

Contents
1. IDRIM NEWS ................................................. 3
2. Other NEWS .................................................. 13
3. Conference Announcements .......................... 21
4. Internet Resource List .................................... 22
5. Disaster Related Journals ............................... 24
6. New Books..................................................... 27
7. Selected Article References ........................... 46
8. Miscellaneous ................................................ 49

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1. IDRIM NEWS

Message from the Editorial TeamThe IDRiM Society wants to express empathy for those effected andsuffering from the consequences of the global COVID-19 pandemic. We,
as a Society, are committed to learning from the current events,
promoting integrated disaster risk research, building on our networks
and our members’ expertise. Together we may understand the failures,challenges, and identify best-practices that may help us be better
prepared for future events. We are committed to identifying
opportunities for enhancing sector knowledge and supporting thetranslation of these into practical solutions.
We wish everyone the best for the coming months. We hope you may
stay safe and take care of yourself, your loved ones, and those aroundyou.
Editorial Team
IDRiM Newsletter

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A Message from the Outgoing IDRiM
President Professor Adam Rose
It has been my great honor to serve as President of the International
Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management. I very much enjoyedworking with the Board of Directors, the Secretariat, our membership,
and our conference hosts over the past three years. It was a difficult
decision for me to decide not to stand for re-election, but I made thatchoice for two reasons. First, I think it is important for more of ourmembers to have leadership roles in the Society, especially younger ones.
Second, I was recently appointed the Director of a major research centerat my university, and I didn’t think I can do justice to both that
responsibility and serving as IDRiM President.
Again, I wish to thank all of those who've worked diligently on various
IDRiM activities, especially our annual conference. Our Society is only
strong if people are willing to give of their time and energy on these andother initiatives. I stand ready to support our new President, Ana Maria
Cruz of DPRI, she takes on the leadership duties at the beginning ofApril. I encourage all of you to do the same. Ana Maria has been a very
hard-working and devoted leader in our Society, serving on the Board of
Directors as Secretary of the Society for many years, and I expect that
she will capitalize on her experience and intelligence in guiding IDRiM
to even greater heights in the future.
Over the past three years, I’ve emphasized that the IDRiM Charter states
as the Society’s main objective: “To promote knowledge sharing,interdisciplinary research and development on integrated disaster risk
management contributing to the implementation of successful models
for efficient and equitable disaster risk management options.
Furthermore, the IDRiM Society aims at promoting knowledge transfer
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and dissemination of information and concepts on integrated disasterrisk management.” Together, we have strived to promote the following
vision for our Society: Stimulate high-quality research and research implementation
 Identify and explore new areas of inquiry in research and practice Advance the integration of the various aspects of our field Disseminate the work of the Society and its membership more
widely Address pressing issues at the conceptual, methodological,
empirical, policy and implementation levels
 Influence policy at the local, regional, national, and international
levels Increase membership, with an eye toward attracting top people
involved in research and practice Foster more involvement and new initiatives from our younger
members
 Enhance the diversity of our membership
During our Board Meeting and General Assembly this past October in
Nice, France, we decided to engage in a formal Strategic Planning
initiative to assess IDRiM Society accomplishments over the past 10
years and chart a course for the next ten. I’m happy to announce that
Joanne Linerooth-Bayer and Elisabeth Krausmann have agreed to serveas co-chairs of the Committee to guide this process. I expect that they
will be reaching out to all of our membership in the near future.
I also again encourage all IDRiM members to avail themselves of themany perks of membership, including attending our conferences,publishing in our Journal, submitting manuscripts to our new IDRiM
Book Series with Springer Publishers, reading our Newsletter andBulletin, posting communications on our Website, and organizing andpartaking of new IDRiM Initiatives.
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I look forward to seeing many of you at our 2020 Conference in Kyoto
this September. I will continue to serve the Society as a member of theBoard of Directors, and welcome your suggestions for making ourSociety more inclusive and effective.
Best regards,
Adam Rose
IDRiM President
adam.rose@usc.edu

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Letter from the new President of the
IDRiM Society,
Professor Ana Maria Cruz
I am honored and grateful to each and everyone of our members to havebeen elected President of the IDRiM Society (2020/04-2023/03). I
would like to thank the outgoing President, Adam Rose, for his
leadership, high motivation and energy, and outstanding contributions
during his presidency.
I have been a member of the IDRiM family now for almost 20 years. I
was privileged to have joined the first IIASA-DPRI Forum on Integrated
Disaster Risk Management in Laxenburg, Austria in 2001, and attended
almost all IIASA-DPRI forums before the establishment of the IDRiM
Society in 2009. Since the founding of the IDRiM Society, I have been
inspired by Norio Okada, the former President, Joanne Linerooth-Bayer,
Aniello Amendola, Peijun Shi, Mohsen Ashtiany, Hirokazu Tatano, andother founding members who dreamed of IDRiM as a way to foster
interdisciplinary research, and bridge the gap between theory andpractice by promoting integrated disaster risk management andimplementation science. Today, IDRiM has been propelled forward
collectively by you, our members, and by the past presidents and pastmembers of the Board of Directors. I look forward to continuing thisimportant work together with the new Board of Directors towards
fulfilling the mission of IDRiM.
I hope I can bring my own past experience and expertise on Natechs,
which is a complex and interdependent type of risk, and extend it
beyond the current state bringing in more social and human dimensions.
I also hope that through my multi-cultural background, and life andwork experience in different continents in industry, government andPage 7

academia, I myself, can serve as a kind of bridge to reach out topotential members from diverse disciplines, backgrounds andunderrepresented countries in IDRiM.
As we celebrate 20 years since the first IIASA-DPRI Forum was held,
and as we celebrate 10 years since the first IDRiM conference was heldin Austria in 2010, we should pause to evaluate the achievements andcontributions of the Society, and develop our shared, future road-map
for the coming decade. In this sense, the formal Strategic Planning
initiative started since the IDRiM2019 Conference in Nice is of utmost
importance.
I would like to request your support and active participation in theactivities of the IDRiM Society, such as the annual conference,
publishing through the IDRiM Journal, contributing to the Newsletterand Bulletin, or contributing through our topical committees. I would
like to especially call on young scientists to become more involved. I
look forward to receiving your comments and suggestions on how we
can better serve you, our members, improve our visibility, as well as
attract more members. I hope we can incorporate your enthusiasm andnew ideas in order to strengthen our current activities, or by proposing
new initiatives and activities if there is interest.
Before closing, I would just like to say that I pray that we may all get
through these extremely difficult times safely, or at least without too
many scars. It is by joining efforts, across borders, disciplines andcultures, and working together that we can overcome challenges. Let us
not lose hope. This is what IDRiM is about.
Sincerely,
Ana Maria Cruz

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Announcement
IDRiM Conference 2020
22nd – 24th September 2020 in Kyoto, Japan
Reviewing the Effectiveness of Integrated Disaster Risk
Management Initiatives〜 Saga from 2001 to 2020 〜
IDRiM2020 takes on a special meaning as we look back at two decadesof applied and theoretical research on integrated disaster risk
management. Thus, we may ask, how has IDRiM contributed to disasterrisk reduction (DRR)? Should IDRiM play a more prominent role inglobal platforms on DRR, development and climate change adaptation?
Can IDRiM promote implementation science through ideas such as thecase‐station field campuses (CASiFiCA) and other initiatives? Can IDRiM
play a stronger role in bridging the gap between local, national andinternational multi‐stakeholder discussions on disaster risk reduction?
How “integrated” have our efforts been? Do we need to expand ourviews? How can advances from other disciplinary fields and initiatives
that have not been traditionally included in the DRR discourse (e.g.,
conscious businesses and new economics paradigms, green
construction, life cycle assessment and planning, environmental
protection including reducing consumption and waste, simple living,green cities, disaster history, anthropology and cultural studies, andmany more) contribute to DRR and vice versa? Furthermore, as theworld is currently facing one of the worst pandemics the world has
faced in many years, we encourage presentations that can help us
understand and learn from this disaster.
Page 9IDRiM 2020 will look at the above topics as well as presentations
addressing issues related to:Understanding hazards and risks
Managing risks
Climate change
Development
Interconnections, chain effects / cascading events
Aging and shrinking populations
Promoting intergenerational discussion and collaboration
Implementation scienceResilience and sustainability
Disaster education
Population and development in Asia and Africa
Human and collective behavior, risk perception and DRR
Technological hazards triggered by natural hazards
Economics of disasters
Disaster risk financing
Risk governanceSpecial dates:
April / 2020

Mid May / 2020
Mid May / 2020
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Open Homepage
Call for abstracts (special session,
poster, oral, YSS)
Special session and workshops
deadline
Early bird registration starts

End of May / 2020
Mid June/ 2020
End of June/ 2020
End of Jul / 2020
Aug / 2020
Dec / 2020

Abstracts submission deadline
Announcement of acceptance ofspecial sessions and workshops
Announcement of acceptance of
Abstracts
Early Bird registration finishes
Normal registration starts
Full paper submission deadline

Conference Website: http://idrim2020.com/
NOTE: Corresponding to the rapidly changing situation of the COVID‐19
pandemic around the world, as of March 30, the IDRiM Board of
Directors is discussing on multiple possible plans regarding the IDRiM
2020 Conference including postponement or adapting (e.g., via online
webinars). Please check the conference website and emails sent fromthe Society Secretariat.

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IDRiM Book Series
The Editors of the IDRiM Book Series invite submissions. Please send a
one-pageprospectus
toProfessors
Norio
Okada
(kyotookanori@gmail.com) or Adam Rose (adam.rose@usc.edu)
More information about the Series can be found
at: https://www.springer.com/series/13465

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2. Other NEWS

Global Risks Report 2020
From the press release:
Source: https://www.weforum.org/press/2020/01/burning-planet-climatefires-and-political-flame-wars-rage“The report forecasts a year of increased domestic and international
divisions and economic slowdown. Geopolitical turbulence is propelling us
towards an “unsettled” unilateral world of great power rivalries at a time
when business and government leaders must focus urgently on working
together to tackle shared risks.
Over 750 global experts and decision-makers were asked to rank theirbiggest concerns in terms of likelihood and impact and 78% said they
expect “economic confrontations” and “domestic political polarization” torise in 2020.
This would prove catastrophic, particularly for addressing urgent challenges
like the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and record species decline. The
report, produced in partnership with Marsh & McLennan and Zurich
Insurance Group, points to a need for policy-makers to match targets forprotecting the Earth with ones for boosting economies – and for companies
to avoid the risks of potentially disastrous future losses by adjusting toscience-based targets.
For the first time in the survey’s 10-year outlook, the top five global risks interms of likelihood are all environmental. The report sounds the alarm on:
 Extreme
weather events with major damage to property,
infrastructure and loss of human life
 Failure of climate-change mitigation and adaptation by governments
and businesses.
 Human-made environmental damage and disasters, including
environmental crime, such as oil spills, and radioactive contamination.

Page 13Major biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse (terrestrial or marine)with irreversible consequences for the environment, resulting inseverely depleted resources for humankind as well as industries.
Major natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic
eruptions, and geomagnetic storms.

It adds that unless stakeholders adapt to “today’s epochal power-shift” andgeopolitical turbulence – while still preparing for the future – time will run
out to address some of the most pressing economic, environmental andtechnological challenges. This signals where action by business and policymakers is most needed.” […]“The Global Risks Report is part of the Global
Risks Initiative which brings stakeholders together to develop sustainable,
integrated solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.
Systems-level thinking is required to confront looming geopolitical andenvironmental risks, and threats that may otherwise fall under the radar.
This year’s report focuses explicitly on impacts from rising inequality, gaps
in technology governance, and health systems under pressure.
“To younger generations, the state of the planet is even more alarming.
The report highlights how risks are seen by those born after 1980. They
ranked environmental risks higher than other respondents, in the short- andlong- terms. Almost 90% of these respondents believe “extreme heatwaves”, “destruction of ecosystems” and “health impacted by pollution” will
be aggravated in 2020; compared to 77%, 76% and 67% respectively forother generations. They also believe that the impact from environmental
risks by 2030 will be more catastrophic and more likely.”“The Global Risks Report 2020 has been developed with the invaluable
support of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Advisory Board. It
also benefits from ongoing collaboration with its Strategic Partners Marsh &McLennan and Zurich Insurance Group and its academic advisers at the
Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford), the National University ofSingapore and the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes
Center (University of Pennsylvania).”
Website:http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Risk_Report_2020.pdf

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Global Report on Internal
Displacement 2019
From the press release :Source: http://www.internal-displacement.org/global-report/grid2019/“A record 41.3 million people are displaced inside their own countries because of
conflict and violence, according to a new report by the Internal Displacement
Monitoring Centre (IDMC) of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).
The number of people living in internal displacement worldwide as of the end of
2018 is the highest it has ever been, according to the Global Report on Internal
Displacement, launched today at the United Nations in Geneva. This is anincrease of more than a million since the end of 2017 and two-thirds more than
the global number of refugees.
The record figure is the result of years of cyclical and protracted displacement,
and high levels of new displacement between January and December 2018.
IDMC recorded 28 million new internal displacements associated with conflict,generalised violence and disasters in 2018.
Ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Syria, and a rise inintercommunal tensions in Ethiopia, Cameroon and Nigeria’s Middle Belt region
triggered most of the 10.8 million new displacements linked to conflict andviolence. Internally displaced people (IDPs) who tried to return to their homes in
Iraq, Nigeria and Syria during the year found their property destroyed,
infrastructure damaged and basic services non-existent.”“Extreme weather events were responsible for the majority of the 17.2 million
new displacements associated with disasters in 2018. Tropical cyclones andmonsoon floods led to mass displacement in the Philippines, China and India,
mostly in the form of evacuations. California suffered the most destructive
wildfires in its history, which displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
A number of countries were affected by both conflict and disasters. Drought in
Afghanistan triggered more displacement than the country’s armed conflict, andPage 15

the crisis in north-eastern Nigeria was aggravated by flooding that affected 80
per cent of the country.”“The report shows that internal displacement is an increasingly urban
phenomenon. Warfare in cities such as Dara’a in Syria, Hodeidah in Yemen andTripoli in Libya accounted for much of the displacement recorded in the Middle
East in 2018. Urban centres such as Dhaka in Bangladesh are also the preferred
destination for many people fleeing the effects of climate change.
Such influxes present great challenges for cities and can aggravate existing risk
factors. People who fled fighting in rural areas of Afghanistan and Somalia faced
abject poverty, tenure insecurity and onward displacement from flooding andevictions in Kabul and Mogadishu.
“Regional press releases detailing more specific displacement within
geographical areas are available for sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, Asia andMiddle East and North Africa.” They can be found at (http://www.internaldisplacement.org/global-report/grid2019/): “About IDMC
The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) is the world's authoritative
source of data and analysis on internal displacement. Since its establishment in
1998, as part of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), IDMC has offered arigorous, independent and trusted service to the international community. Theirwork informs policy and operational decisions that improve the lives of themillions of people living in internal displacement, or at risk of becoming displacedin the future.
Website: http://www.internal-displacement.org/
Report available in different languages at:
http://www.internal-displacement.org/global-report/grid2019/

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Global Assessment ReportGAR 2019 out
From the press release.
Source:https://gar.unisdr.org/news/undrr-global-assessment-report-disasterrisk-reduction-calls-governments-take-urgent-action“The world faces new, emerging, and much larger threats than ever before,
linked to climate change, environmental degradation, and the growing potential
for one disaster to produce or exacerbate another, says a new report from theUnited Nations.
The Global Assessment Report 2019 (GAR19) published by the United
Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) at the Global Platform forDisaster Risk Reduction, outlines major risks to human life and material property,
ranging from air pollution and biological hazards, through to earthquakes,
drought, and climate change.
“Extreme changes in planetary and socioecological systems are happening
now; we no longer have the luxury of procrastination. If we continue living in thisway, engaging with each other and the planet in the way we do, then our very
survival is in doubt,” said Mami Mizutori, the Special representative of theSecretary-General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Unsustainable patterns of growth
The report warns that unsustainable patterns of economic activity hide the buildup of systemic risks across sectors citing for example, dangerous
overdependence on single crops in an age of accelerating global warming.
"We witness severe inequalities of burden sharing between low and high income
countries, with the poorest bearing the highest toll and greatest costs of disasters.
Human losses and asset losses relative to GDP tend to be higher in the countries
with the least capacity to prepare, finance and respond to disasters and climatechange, such as in small island developing States," the report argues.
There is growing potential for one disaster to produce or exacerbate another as
happens often in the case of heavy rains which trigger landslides and mudslides
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Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
If governments do not adopt appropriate strategies to manage risk, then thesethreats could slow or even reverse progress towards the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs), notably eradicating poverty and hunger, and action
on climate change.
"The human race has never before faced such large and complex threats. The
doubling of extreme weather events over the last twenty years is further evidence
that we need a new approach to managing disaster risk if we are to limit disasterlosses. Economic losses are making it an uphill battle to hold on to development
gains in low and middle income countries," said SRSG Mizutori.
"At the same time, the resilience gap between rich and poor is made worse bypoorly-planned urbanization, the disappearance of bio-diversity and protective
eco-systems, population growth in disaster exposed areas which all add to acomplex cocktail of risk which drives internal displacement and migration in
search of a better life."
Adopting the Sendai Framework
The report urges governments to put the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk
Reduction into action, shifting focus from disaster management to reducing risk.
Adopted by UN Member States in 2015, the Sendai Framework aims to reducethe impact of disasters in terms of mortality, numbers of people affected, andeconomic loss. It requires governments to understand disaster risk, strengthen
disaster risk governance, invest in resilience, and enhance disaster
preparedness.
According to the last Global Assessment Report in 2015, annual global
investments of USD 6 billion in appropriate disaster risk reduction strategies
would generate total benefits of USD 360 billion each year.
“We must recognize that an international development financing system that
allocates approximately 20 times the funding to emergency response,reconstruction, relief and rehabilitation activities rather than prevention andpreparedness, acts counter to sustainability principles,” SRSG Mizutori added.

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Complex interactions
The complexity of our global economy and the interactions between human andnatural systems means that one disaster can quickly provoke another. Population
growth and rising consumption are set to put more pressure on the world’s
ecosystems than ever before.
Drought is likely to emerge as a complex risk due to its wide-ranging, slowbuilding, and cascading impacts. Drought can affect agriculture, water supply,
energy production, transport, tourism, health, biodiversity, and ecosystems. A
special report on drought will be published in 2020.”
Website:https://gar.unisdr.org/report-2019

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Asia pacific disaster report
From the ESCAP/CDR/2019/1 summary:
Source:https://www.unescap.org/sites/default/files/Summary%20of%20the%20A
sia-Pacific%20Disaster%20Report%202019_English.pdf
The Asia pacific disaster report “provides an overview of disaster trends andimpacts in Asia and the Pacific, and, by including slow-onset disasters, for the
first time a comprehensive estimate of annualized economic losses due todisasters was calculated. The Report also contains information on how disasters
and exposure to multiple hazards play a significant role in reversing the social
development of the region and will continue to widen various inequality gaps
unless enhanced efforts and investments are made to reduce the risks andimpacts
By employing an economic model and conducting a policy review of the many
disaster risk reduction interventions already underway in the region, thesecretariat was able to highlight policy options for breaking the cycle between
disasters, poverty, inequality and disempowerment. The Report also contains
highlights of opportunities arising from the technologies that have emerged in the
fourth industrial revolution to create a pathway to empowering and including thepoorest and most vulnerable people.
Website for the report: www.unescap.org/publications/asia-pacific-disasterreport-2019

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3. Conference Announcements 22 September – 24 September 2020
IDRiM Conference 2020, Reviewing the Effectiveness ofIntegrated Disaster Risk Management Initiatives
IDRiM2020 takes on a special meaning as we look back at two
decades of applied and theoretical research on integrated disasterrisk management. Thus, we may ask, how has IDRiM contributed todisaster risk reduction (DRR)? Should IDRiM play a more prominentrole in global platforms on DRR, development and climate change
adaptation? Can IDRiM promote implementation science throughideas such as the case-station field campuses (CASiFiCA) and otherinitiatives? Can IDRiM play a stronger role in bridging the gap
between local, national and international multi-stakeholder
discussions on disaster risk reduction? How “integrated” have ourefforts been? Do we need to expand our views? How can advancesfrom other disciplinary fields and initiatives that have not been
traditionally included in the DRR discourse (e.g., conscious
businesses and new economics paradigms, green construction, life
cycle assessment and planning, environmental protection including
reducing consumption and waste, simple living, green cities, disasterhistory, anthropology and cultural studies, and many more) contributeto DRR and vice versa?
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation we refrain to list any upcoming
conferences and refer to the related internet links given below for updated
information.

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4. Internet Resource List

Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes
http://www.gadri.net/

Emergency Events Database EM-DAT
http://www.emdat.be/World Economic Forum Database
http://reports.weforum.org/

Global Assessment Report and UNISDR
https://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/gar



Munich NatCatService
http://www.munichre.com/en/reinsurance/business/nonlife/natcatservice/index.html

Global Disaster Watch
http://globaldisasterwatch.blogspot.co.at/

RSOE EDIS - Emergency and Disaster Information Service
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php



GDACS - Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System
http://www.gdacs.org/

Pacific Disaster Center
http://www.pdc.org/

Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2013:
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/hyogo/gar/2013/en/home/index.html



United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Global Assessment Report(GAR):
http://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/gar

PreventionWeb: Serving the information needs of the disaster reduction
community:
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/.

Disaster Reduction Hyper base: Web based facility to compile appropriate
disaster reduction technologies and knowledge.

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

MCEER: Collection of disaster management resources, including international,
federal, state, local and non-profit organizations:
http://mceer.buffalo.edu/infoservice/reference_services/disasterManagementRes
ources.asp



Staffordshire Raynet: Disaster and Emergency Management on the Internet.
Long list of websites for various disasters and databases.
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/por/disaster.htm

Internet Resources for Disaster Studies: University of Delaware Library
http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/disasters/internet.htm



FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency: Focus is on the US
http://www.fema.gov/index.shtm



EDEN - Extension Disaster Education Network: Reducing the Impact ofDisasters Through Education
http://eden.lsu.edu/EDENCourses/Pages/default.aspx

Disaster Handbook: University of Florida.
http://disaster.ifas.ufl.edu/links.htm

Disaster Management: Royal Roads University.
http://libguides.royalroads.ca/content.php?pid=64941&sid=480216



Natural Hazards and Disaster Information Resources: University of Colorado at
Boulder (including newsletter).
http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/resources/

Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistancehttps://www.cfe-dmha.org/



Humanitarian Library
http://www.humanitarianlibrary.org/



UNHCR: Emergency Handbook
https://emergency.unhcr.org/



ProVention Consortium: Working in Partnership to Build Safer Communities andReduce Disaster Risk
http://www.proventionconsortium.net/?pageid=29

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5. Disaster Related Journals
Journal of Integrated Disaster Risk Management, IDRIM Journal
http://idrimjournal.com/index.php/idrim

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change
http://www.springer.com/economics/environmental/journal/41885

Journal of Extreme Events
http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/joeeWeather and Climate Extremes
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/weather-and-climate-extremes/Climate Risk Management
http://ees.elsevier.com/clrm/

Journal of Geography & Natural Disasters
http://www.omicsgroup.org/journals/jgndhome.phpDisaster Health
http://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/disasterhealth/International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR)
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/727506/descriptio
n#description

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291468-5973

Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~trauma/welcome.shtml

Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies
http://www.jamba.org.za/index.php/jamba/indexGeorisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems
and Geohazards
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=17499518&linktype=1

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/718675/descriptio
n#description

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International Journal of Risk Management(IJRM)http://www.serialspublications.com/journals1.asp?jid=583

International Journal of Safety and Security Engineering
http://journals.witpress.com/jsse.asp

Global Environmental Change
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/30425/description#description

Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
http://www.bepress.com/jhsem/about.html

Journal of Emergency Management
http://www.pnpco.com/pn06001.html

International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=IJDRBERegional Environmental Change
http://www.springer.com/environment/global+change++climate+change/journal/10113

Natural Hazards Review
http://ascelibrary.org/nho/Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response
http://www.atlantis-press.com/publications/jracr/index.html

Environmental Hazards
http://www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=37213

International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management(IJCCSM): www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=ijccsm

Journal of Natural Disaster
Sciencehttp://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jsnds/contents/jnds/about.html

Disasters
http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0361-3666&site=1

Environmental Hazards
http://www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=37213

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Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Environmental Change
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Extremes
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Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management (AJEDM)
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
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Disaster Advances
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6. New Books
Advances in Spatial and Economic Modeling of Disaster Impacts,
Authors: Yasuhide Okuyama and Adam Rose (Editors)
Year: 2019
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 978-3-030-16236-8
Content: This book is divided into three parts. The first part addresses theconceptual and broader issues of disaster modeling, offering insights for better
understanding of disaster characteristics, with the aim of improving thetheoretical representations and interpretations of disasters in quantitative
analysis. The second part presents a series of advances in the state-of-the-art
modeling frameworks using Computable General Equilibrium (CGE), InputOutput (I-O), integrated, and other economic models. The third part illustrates
the use of disaster modeling in the decision-making process for recovery andreconstruction after a disaster, as well as for strategies to reduce risk fromfuture disasters. This chapter concludes with a discussion of priorities for future
research, including distributional impacts, integration with financial models, andlong-run sustainability after a disaster.
Disaster Upon Disaster: Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy andPractice
Authors: Susanna M. Hoffma and Roberto E. Barrios
Year: 2019
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 978-1789206487
Content: A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction
between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies
mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has beenacquired regarding many aspects of disasters, such as driving factors, risk
construction, complexity of resettlement, and importance of peoples’ culture, very
little has become protocol and procedure. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates thenumerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, andexecutions in the field, goes on to detail contingencies, predicaments, old andnew plights, and finally advances solutions toward greatly improved outcomes.
Emergency Management: Concepts and Strategies for Effective Programs 2nd
EditionAuthors: Dennis W. Tafoya
Year: 2020
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 978-3030370732
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Content: This book explores how and why an event is a precursor to theemergence of a crisis and how a given crisis affects an organization and its
stakeholders. Using existing systems theory blended with innovative use of wave,
epidemiological, immunological and psycho-social theories, the author discusses
ways to understand the effects of different types of crises while showing how to
document and/or quantitatively measure those effects. The book offers newmodels illustrating how events trigger crises and how they subsequently morph
into catastrophes and disasters. Using theories and tools tested in organizationalsettings to identify contributors to a traumatic event, this book makes a valuable
contribution to organizational and crisis management literature.
Emergency Management: Concepts and Strategies for Effective Programs 2nd
EditionAuthors: Nikolas Scherer
Year: 2020
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 978-0367342470
Content: This book provides one of the first systematic in-depth studies onregional catastrophe risk pools. It explores the various goals of these newfinancial instruments, illustrating how they function on a conceptual, technicaland practical level, and reconstructs their political genesis. With climate-related
disasters increasing in frequency and severity, Insuring Against Climate
Change explores how affected countries, especially those in the Global South,
have increasingly turned to innovative index insurance instruments, as
demonstrated by the creation of the Caribbean Catastrophic Risk Insurance
Facility (CCRIF), the African Risk Capacity (ARC) and the Pacific Catastrophe
Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative Facility (PCRAFI Facility). Scherer
scrutinizes the formation of this trend, exploring comparatively the goals,
characteristics and histories of these tools, and argues that their attractivenessrests more on political than economic benefits and is, in fact, more supply thandemand-driven. Making a significant contribution to current debates on theopportunities and limitations of what are sometimes described as indirect ‘climate
risk insurance’, this book will be of great interest to political scientists with aninterest in insurance instruments and climate-related disaster management
politics as well as to practitioners working in the insurance, finance and thedevelopment sectors.
Extreme and Systemic Risk Analysis: A Loss Distribution Approach
Authors: Hochrainer-Stigler, Stefan
Year: 2020
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 978-981-15-2688-6

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Content: This book is about how extreme and systemic risk can be analyzed in
an integrated way. Risk analysis is understood to include measurement,
assessment as well as management aspects. Integration is understood as being
able to perform risk analysis for extreme and systemic events simultaneously.
The presented approach is based on Sklar's theorem, which states that a
multivariate distribution can be separated into two parts – one describing themarginal distributions and the other describing the dependency between the
distributions using a so-called copula. It is suggested to reinterpret Sklar's
theorem from a system or network perspective, treating copulas as a network
property and individual, including extreme, risk as elements within the network. In
that way, extreme and systemic risk can be analyzed independently as well as
jointly across several scales. The book is intended for a large audience, and alltechniques presented are guided with examples and applications with a special
focus on natural disaster events. Furthermore, an extensive literature anddiscussion of it are given in each chapter for the interested reader.
Disaster Risk Communication
Authors: Yamori, Katsuya (Ed.)
Year: 2020
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 978-981-13-2317-1
Content: This book provides a unique blend of integrated disaster risk
communication research conducted by authors with diverse backgrounds,
including social psychology, sociology, civil engineering, informatics, andmeteorology. It reports on the latest advances in collaborative and participatory
action research on community-based disaster management from the frontline inJapan, Nepal, China and the USA. In addition, it employs and integrate a broad
range of methodologies, including mathematical analyses, computer simulations,questionnaire surveys, gaming approaches, and participatory observation. Eachchapter deals with disaster risk communication initiatives to address various
hazards, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and landslides, which are
uniquely integrated from a social psychological perspective.
An Interdisciplinary Approach for Disaster Resilience and Sustainability
Authors: Pal, I., von Meding, J., Shrestha, S., Ahmed, I., Gajendran, T. (Eds.)
Year: 2020
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 978-981-329-526-1
Content: This book includes selected papers presented at the international
expert forum on “Mainstreaming Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction in
Education,” held at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand on 1–2 December
2017. The journey towards disaster risk reduction and resilience requires theparticipation of a wide array of stakeholders ranging from academics topolicymakers, to disaster managers. Given the multifaceted and interdependent
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nature of disasters, disaster risk reduction and resilience require a
multidisciplinary problem-solving approach and evidence-based techniques fromthenatural,social,engineering,
and
other
relevantsciences.
Traditionally, hazard and disaster-related studies have been dominated by theengineering and social science fields. In this regard, the main purpose of thisbook is to capture the multidisciplinary and multisectoral nature of disaster risk
reduction, and to gather existing data, research, conceptual work, and practicalcases regarding risk reduction and its ties to sustainable development under asingle “umbrella.” Along with the sustainability aspect, the book also links
disaster risk reduction with development, technology, governance, education,and climate change, and includes discussions on challenges, solutions, and bestpractices in the mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction.
Emergency Management: Concepts and Strategies for Effective Programs 2nd
EditionAuthors: Lucien G. Canton
Year: 2018
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 1119066859
Content: Provides a comprehensive examination of emergency management
and offers concepts and strategies for creating effective programs.This booklooks at the larger context within which emergency management response
occurs, and stresses the development of a program to address a wide range ofissues. Not limited to traditional emergency response to natural disasters, it
addresses a conceptual model capable of integrating multiple disciplines anddealing with unexpected emergencies. Emergency Management: Concepts andStrategies for Effective Programs, Second Edition starts by focusing on the threepillars on which successful emergency management is based: an understandingof history, knowledge of social science research, and technical expertise inemergency management operations. It provides insight as to how emergency
management has evolved and suggests reasons why the current method of
response planning doesn’t work as well as it should. The book then goes on to
discuss establishing and administering the emergency management program. It
looks at the analysis of risk as the basis for strategy development, and considers
both the traditional macro view of hazard identification and analysis as well as
the micro view required for continuity planning. Strategy development is
examined next, followed by coverage of planning process, techniques andmethods. The book finishes with chapters on coordinating response, leading incrisis, and crisis management. Emergency Management: Concepts andStrategies for Effective Programs is an important book that will benefit students,
law enforcement, and state and local emergency managers and planners
involved in emergency management.

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Resilient Structures and Infrastructure 1st ed. 2019 Edition
Authors: Noroozinejad Farsangi, Ehsan (Editor), Izuru Takewaki (Editor), Tony
Y. Yang (Editor), Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl (Editor), Paolo Gardoni (Editor)
Year: 2018
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811374457
Content: This book discusses resilience in terms of structures’ andinfrastructures’ responses to extreme loading conditions. These include staticand dynamic loads such as those generated by blasts, terrorist attacks, seismic
events, impact loadings, progressive collapse, floods and wind. In the last
decade, the concept of resilience and resilient-based structures has increasingly
gained in interest among engineers and scientists. Resilience describes a given
structure’s ability to withstand sudden shocks. In other words, it can be measured
by the magnitude of shock that a system can tolerate. This book offers a valuable
resource for the development of new engineering practices, codes andregulations, public policy, and investigation reports on resilience, and provides
broad and integrated coverage of the effects of dynamic loadings, and of themodeling techniques used to compute the structural response to these loadings
Disaster Risk Science
Authors: Peijun Shi (Author)
Year: 2018
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811366888
Content: This is the first English language book to systematically introduce basic
theories, methods and applications of disaster risk science from the angle ofdifferent subjects including disaster science, emergency technology and risk
management. Viewed from basic theories, disaster risk science consists ofdisaster system, formation mechanism and process, covering 3 chapters in thisbook. From the perspective of technical methods, disaster risk science includes
measurement and assessment of disasters, mapping and zoning of disaster risk,
covering 4 chapters in this book. From the angle of application practices, disasterrisk science contains disaster management, emergency response and integrated
disaster risk paradigm, covering 3 chapters in the book. The book can be a goodreference for researchers, students, and practitioners in the field of disaster risk
science and natural disaster risk management for more actively participating inand supporting the development of "disaster risk science".
Palaeohydrology: Traces, Tracks and Trails of Extreme Events
Authors: Jürgen Herget (Editor), Alessandro Fontana (Editor)
Year: 2018
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030233146

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Content: The book provides a review of the most relevant topics on the booming
discipline of palaeohydrology and focuses on previous extreme events like
exceptional floods and droughts. Reviews written by leading experts of theirfields are combined with selected key studies and presentations on up-to-day
methodical and conceptional topics as a perspective for further research.
Consequently, the compilation provides an excellent review on the state of the artof numerous relevant topics of palaeohydrology and acts as unique introduction
for early career scientists and scientists of different disciplines working onhydrological extreme events, both in basic research and applied aspects.
Livestock Survival And Management During Disasters
Authors: Mahadevappa D Gouri (Author), Y. B. Rajeshwari (Author), S. B.
Prasanna (Author)
Year: 2018
Publisher: New India Publishing Agency -NIPA
ISBN: 9387973107
Content: The book has covered all mad made and natural disasters and theireffect on livestock and how they can be managed better for longer survival andhelp to the humans. Topics on how animals can sense a disaster in advance andwhat are the common indications given by them and how humans can benefit
from it. Book elucidates the management of feeding, feed resources, production
and health so as to make the livestock production economical. It is hoped thatthe compilation will prove useful for the researchers, planners and policy makers
to understand the causes for the loss of productivity and health of livestock indrier regions and help in devising management plans towards sustenance andimprovement of production.
Reduction And Predictability Of Natural Disasters 1st Edition
Authors: John Rundle (Author), William Klein (Author), Don Turcotte (Author)
Year: 2018
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0367320495
Content: Within the past five years, the international community has recognizedthat it may be possible, through programs of systematic study, to devise means
to reduce and mitigate the occurrence of a variety of devastating natural hazards.
Among these disasters are earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, andlandslides. The importance of these studies is underscored by the fact that within
fifty years, more than a third of the world’s population will live in seismically andvolcanically active zones. The International Council of Scientific Unions, together
with UNESCO and the World Bank, have therefore endorsed the 1990s as theInternational Decade of Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), and are planning avariety of programs to address problems related to the predictability andmitigation of these disasters, particularly in third-world countries. Parallel
programs have begun in a number of U.S. agencies.
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The UNHCR and Disaster Displacement in the 21st Century: An Organizational
Analysis
Authors: Sinja Hantscher
Year: 2018
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030196887
Content: This book offers an in-depth case study on the leading international
refugee agency, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),
and its approach to environmentally displaced persons. The author examines the
UNHCR on the basis of expert interviews and content analysis in order tohighlight why and how the organization is addressing the issue. The analysis
draws on organizational as well as security theory, offering readers a better
understanding of the connection between the two. The book appeals to scholars
in the fields of migration and organizational studies, as well as policymakers andprofessionals working in international organizations.
Hurricane Risk
Authors: Jennifer M. Collins (Editor), Kevin Walsh (Editor)
Year: 2018
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
ASIN: B07NV9H1YF
Content: This book details the outcomes of new research focusing on climate
risk related to hurricanes. Topics include numerical simulation of tropical
cyclones, through tropical cyclone hazard estimation to damage estimates andtheir implications for commercial risk. Inspired by the 6th International Summit on
Hurricanes and Climate Change: From Hazard to Impact, this book brings
together leading international academics and researchers, and provides a source
reference for both risk managers and climate scientists for research on theinterface between tropical cyclones, climate and risk.
The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do
About Them)
Authors: Lucy Jones
Year: 2018
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 978-0385542708
Content: Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes, volcanoes--they stem fromthe same forces that give our planet life. Earthquakes give us natural springs;
volcanoes produce fertile soil. It is only when these forces exceed our ability towithstand them that they become disasters. Together they have shaped our cities
and their architecture; elevated leaders and toppled governments; influenced theway we think, feel, fight, unite, and pray. The history of natural disasters is ahistory of ourselves. In The Big Ones, leading seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones offersa bracing look at some of the world's greatest natural disasters, whose
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reverberations we continue to feel today. At Pompeii, Jones explores how a
volcanic eruption in the first century AD challenged prevailing views of religion.
She examines the California floods of 1862 and the limits of human memory. And
she probes more recent events--such as the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 andthe American hurricanes of 2017--to illustrate the potential for globalization tohumanize and heal. With population in hazardous regions growing andtemperatures around the world rising, the impacts of natural disasters are greaterthan ever before. The Big Ones is more than just a work of history or science; it
is a call to action. Natural hazards are inevitable; human catastrophes are not.
With this energizing and exhaustively researched book, Dr. Jones offers a look at
our past, readying us to face down the Big Ones in our future.
Climate Change and Insurance: Disaster Risk Financing in Developing Countries
Authors: Eugene N. Gurenko
Year: 2018
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
ISBN: 1844074838
Content: Climate change brings about a new set of major economic risks arisingfrom changing weather patterns, extreme weather events and rising sea levels.
Most at risk are developing countries who, despite considerable post-disaster
donor aid, have been bearing the major brunt of disaster-related losses. One
adaptation solution that is rapidly gaining the support of countries andinternational donors is a risk transfer to the global reinsurance and capital
markets. This volume, a special issue of the journal Climate Policy, explores therole that insurance-based mechanisms can play in helping developing countries
prepare for climate change. It offers a unique and comprehensive perspective on
the potential role of insurance solutions in global adaptation to climate change
and attempts to engender debate on the role of insurance in reducing global
emissions and encouraging climate-friendly corporate behaviour.
The Sociotechnical Constitution of Resilience
Authors: Amir, Sulfikar (Ed.)
Year: 2018
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 978-981-10-8508-6
Content: This book considers the concept of resilience in a global society where
coping with the consequence and long term impact of crisis and disasterchallenges the capacity of communities to bounce back in the event of severe
disruption. Catastrophic events such as the 9.11 terrorist attack, the Fukushima
nuclear disaster, and the volcano eruption in Central Java entailed massive
devastation on physical infrastructures, and caused significant social andeconomic damage. This book considers how the modern sociotechnologicalsystem facilitating human activity defines how societies survive and whether acrisis will be short-lived or prolonged. Drawing on the concept of sociotechnicalPage 34

resilience, this book closely examines a range of events North America, Asia,
Australia, and Europe. By presenting the successes and failures ofsociotechnical resilience, it offers important insights and practical lessons to build
better and comprehensive understandings of resilience in a real-world setting,significantly contributing to the study of disaster resilience.
Natural Hazards GIS-based Spatial Modeling Using Data Mining Techniques
Authors: Pourghasemi, Hamid Reza, Rossi, Mauro (Eds.)
Year: 2018
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
ISBN: 978-3-319-73382-1
Content: This edited volume assesses capabilities of data mining algorithms for
spatial modeling of natural hazards in different countries based on a collection of
essays written by experts in the field. The book is organized into three parts
which were under the editorial responsibility of different section editors: (1)Geophysical disasters, (2) Hydrological disasters, and (3) climatological disaster.
The first part consists of landslides and earthquake (seismic) disasters. The
second part includes flash flood, erosion, and land subsidence research. The
final part focuses on climate change, forest fire, land fire, and drought subjects.
Chapters were peer-reviewed by recognized scholars in the field of natural
hazards research. Each chapter provides an overview on the topic, methods
applied and discusses examples used. The concepts and methods are explained
at a level that allows undergraduates to understand and other readers learn
through examples. This edited volume is shaped and structured to provide thereader with a comprehensive overview of all covered topics. It serves as areference for researchers from different fields including land surveying, remotesensing, cartography, GIS, geophysics, geology, natural resources, andgeography. It also serves as a guide for researchers, students, organizations,and decision makers active in land use planning and hazard management.
Urban Resilience for Risk and Adaptation Governance
Authors: Brunetta, G., Caldarice, O., Tollin, N., Rosas-Casals, M., Morató, J.
(Eds.)
Year: 2018
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
ISBN: 978-3-319-76943-1
Content: This book brings together a series of theory and practice essays on risk
management and adaptation in urban contexts within a resilient andmultidimensional perspective. The book proposes a transversal approach withregard to the role of spatial planning in promoting and fostering risk management
as well as institutions’ challenges for governing risk, particularly in relation to newforms of multi-level governance that may include stakeholders and citizen
engagement. The different contributions focus on approaches, policies, andpractices able to contrast risks in urban systems generating social inclusion,
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principles. Case studies focus on lessons learned, as well as the potential andmeans for their replication and upscaling, also through capacity building andknowledge transfer. Among many other topics, the book explores difficulties
encountered in, and creative solutions found, community and local experiences
and capacities, organizational processes and integrative institutional, technicalapproaches to risk issue in cities.
Advances in Indian Earthquake Engineering and Seismology
Authors: Sharma, M.L., Shrikhande, Manish, Wason, H.R. (Eds.)
Year: 2018
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
ISBN: 978-3-319-76854-0
Content: This edited volume is an up-to-date guide for students, policy makers
and engineers on earthquake engineering, including methods and technologies
for seismic hazard detection and mitigation. The book was written in honour ofthe late Professor Jai Krishna, who was a pioneer in teaching and research in thefield of earthquake engineering in India during his decades-long work at the
University of Roorkee (now the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee). The
book comprehensively covers the historical development of earthquake
engineering in India, and uses this background knowledge to address the needfor current advances in earthquake engineering, especially in developing
countries. After discussing the history and growth of earthquake engineering inIndia from the past 50 years, the book addresses the present status ofearthquake engineering in regards to the seismic resistant designs of bridges,
buildings, railways, and other infrastructures. Specific topics include response
spectrum superposition methods, design philosophy, system identification
approaches, retaining walls, and shallow foundations. Readers will learn aboutdevelopments in earthquake engineering over the past 50 years, and how new
methods and technologies can be applied towards seismic risk and hazard
identification and mitigation.
Big Data in Engineering Applications
Authors: Roy, S.S., Samui, P., Deo, R., Ntalampiras, S. (Eds.)
Year: 2018
Publisher: Springer Singapore
ISBN: 978-981-10-8475-1
Content: This book presents the current trends, technologies, and challenges in
Big Data in the diversified field of engineering and sciences. It covers theapplications of Big Data ranging from conventional fields of mechanicalengineering, civil engineering to electronics, electrical, and computer science toareas in pharmaceutical and biological sciences. This book consists ofcontributions from various authors from all sectors of academia and industries,
demonstrating the imperative application of Big Data for the decision-making
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process in sectors where the volume, variety, and velocity of information keepincreasing. The book is a useful reference for graduate students, researchersand scientists interested in exploring the potential of Big Data in the application ofengineering areas.
Communicating Climate Change Information for Decision-Making
Authors: Serrao-Neumann, Silvia, Coudrain, Anne, Coulter, Liese (Eds.)
Year: 2018
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
ISBN: 978-3-319-74668-5
Content: This book provides important insight on a range of issues focused on
three themes; what new climate change information is being developed, how thatknowledge is communicated and how it can be usefully applied acrossinternational, regional and local scales. There is increasing international
investment and interest to develop and communicate updated climate change
information to promote effective action. As change accelerates and planetary
boundaries are crossed this information becomes particularly relevant to guidedecisions and support both proactive adaptation and mitigation strategies.
Developing new information addresses innovations in producing interdisciplinary
climate change knowledge and overcoming issues of data quality, access andavailability. This book examines effective information systems to guide decisionmaking for immediate and future action. Cases studies in developed anddeveloping countries illustrate how climate change information promotes
immediate and future actions across a range of sectors.
Disasters Without Borders: The International Politics of Natural Disasters
Authors: John Hannigan
Year: 2018
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 978-0-745-66311-1
Content: Dramatic scenes of devastation and suffering caused by disasters suchas the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, are viewed with shock andhorror by millions of us across the world. What we rarely see, however, are theinternational politics of disaster aid, mitigation and prevention that condition thecollective response to natural catastrophes around the world. In this book,
respected Canadian environmental sociologist John Hannigan argues that the
global community of nations has failed time and again in establishing an effective
and binding multilateral mechanism for coping with disasters, especially in the
more vulnerable countries of the South. Written in an accessible and evenhanded manner, Disasters without Borders it is the first comprehensive accountof the key milestones, debates, controversies and research relating to theinternational politics of natural disasters. Tracing the historical evolution of thispolicy field from its humanitarian origins in WWI right up to current efforts to castclimate change as the prime global driver of disaster risk, it highlights the
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ongoing mismatch between the way disaster has been conceptualised and theinstitutional architecture in place to manage it. The book’s bold conclusion
predicts the confluence of four emerging trends - politicisation/militarisation,catastrophic scenario building, privatisation of risk, and quantification, which
could create a new system of disaster management wherein 'insurance logic' will
replace humanitarian concern as the guiding principle. Disasters Without
Borders is an ideal introductory text for students, lecturers and practitioners in thefields of international development studies, disaster management, politics andinternational affairs, and environmental geography/sociology.
The Asian Tsunami and Post-Disaster Aid
Authors: Sunita Reddy
Year: 2018
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 978-9811301810
Content: Through the lens of the Asian tsunami, this book problematizes
concepts that are normally taken for granted in disaster discourse, including relief,
recovery, reconstruction and rehabilitation. The unprecedented flow ofhumanitarian aid after the Asian tsunami, though well-intentioned, showedadverse effects and unintended consequences in the lives of people in thecommunities across nations. Aid led not only to widespread relief and recovery
but also to an exacerbation of old forms of inequities and the creation of newones arising from the prioritization, distribution and management of aid. This, inturn, led to the incongruity between the needs and expectations of the affected
and the agendas of aid agencies and their various intermediaries. This bookexamines the long-term consequences of post-disaster aid by posing thefollowing questions: What has the aid been expended on? Where has the aid
primarily been expended, and how? And what were the unintended
consequences of post-disaster aid for the communities? This topical volume is ofinterest to social scientists, human rights and law researchers and environmental
scientists interested in disaster studies.

Disaster Risk Reduction: Community Resilience and Responses
Authors: Bupinder Zutshi, Akbaruddin Ahmad, Ananda Babu Srungarapati Year:
2018
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 978-9811088445
Content: This book discusses the interconnected, complex and emerging risks intoday’s societies and deliberates on the various aspects of disaster risk reduction
strategies especially through community resilience and responses. It consists of
selected papers presented at the World Congress on Disaster Management,
which focused on community resilience and responses towards disaster risk
reduction based on South Asian experiences, and closely examines the
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coordinated research activities involving all stakeholders, especially thecommunities at risk. Further, it narrates the experiences of disaster risk-reduction
in different communities that have policy implications for mitigation of futuredisaster risks in the societies affected by these types of disasters. Written fromthe social science perspective to disasters rather than an engineering approach,the book helps development and governance institutions to prioritize disasters as
a problem of development rather than being parallel to it.
Implementing Climate Change Adaptation in Cities and Communities: Integrating
Strategies and Educational Approaches
Authors: Walter Leal Filho, Kathryn Adamson, Rachel M Dunk
Year: 2018
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 978-3319803821
Content: This book analyzes how climate change adaptation can be
implemented at the community, regional and national level. Featuring a variety ofcase studies, it illustrates strategies, initiatives and projects currently being
implemented across the world. In addition to the challenges faced bycommunities, cities and regions seeking to cope with climate change phenomena
like floods, droughts and other extreme events, the respective chapters cover
topics such as the adaptive capacities of water management organizations,biodiversity conservation, and indigenous and climate change adaptation
strategies. The book will appeal to a broad readership, from scholars topolicymakers, interested in developing strategies for effectively addressing theimpacts of climate change.
Loss and Damage from Climate Change: Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
Authors: Mechler R. et al.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 978-3319720258
Content: This book provides an authoritative insight on the Loss and Damage
discourse by highlighting state-of-the-art research and policy linked to this
discourse and articulating its multiple concepts, principles and methods. Writtenby leading researchers and practitioners, it identifies practical and evidencebased policy options to inform the discourse and climate negotiations. With
climate-related risks on the rise and impacts being felt around the globe hascome the recognition that climate mitigation and adaptation may not be enoughto manage the effects from anthropogenic climate change. This recognition led tothe creation of the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage in2013, a climate policy mechanism dedicated to dealing with climate-related
effects in highly vulnerable countries that face severe constraints and limits toadaptation. Endorsed in 2015 by the Paris Agreement and effectively considereda third pillar of international climate policy, debate and research on Loss andPage 39

Damage continues to gain enormous traction. Yet, concepts, methods and tools
as well as directions for policy and implementation have remained contested andvague. Suitable for researchers, policy-advisors, practitioners and the interested
public, the book furthermore: discusses the political, legal, economic andinstitutional dimensions of the issue, highlights normative questions central to thediscourse, provides a focus on climate risks and climate risk management,
presents salient case studies from around the world.
Already listed new books in previous newsletters with publication date between
2015 and 2018:
Economic Consequence Analysis of Disasters: The E-CAT Software Tool
Authors: Rose, A., Prager, F., Chen, Z., Chatterjee, S., Wei, D., Heatwole, N.,
Warren, E.
Year: 2017
Publisher: Springer Singapore
ISBN: 978-981-10-2566-2
Defining and Measuring Economic Resilience from a Societal, Environmental andSecurity Perspective
Authors: Rose, Adam
Year: 2017
Publisher: Springer Singapore
ISBN: 978-981-10-1532-8
Risk Modeling for Hazards and Disasters
Authors: Gero Michel (Editor)
Year: 2017
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0128040718
Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Modelling: A Practitioner's Guide
Authors: Kirsten Mitchell-Wallace (Author), Matthew Jones (Author), John Hillier(Author), Matthew Foote (Author)
Year: 2017
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 1118906047
Natural Hazards: Earth's Processes as Hazards, Disasters, and Catastrophes
Authors: Edward A. Keller (Author), Duane E. DeVecchio (Author) Year: 2017
Publisher: Routledge
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ISBN: 1138090867
Natech Risk Assessment and Management , 1st Edition, Reducing the Risk of
Natural-Hazard Impact on Hazardous Installations
Authors: Elisabeth Krausmann, Ana Cruz, Ernesto Salzano
ISBN: 9780128038079
eBook ISBN: 9780128038796
Imprint: Elsevier
The Economics of the Global Environment: Catastrophic Risks in Theory and
PolicyAuthors: Graciela Chichilnisky (Editor), Armon Rezai (Editor)
Year: 2017
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 978-3319319414
Climate Hazard Crises in Asian Societies and Environments
Authors: Troy Sternberg
Year: 2017
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 978-92-9257-475-8
Rebuilding Fukushima
Authors: Mitsuo Yamakawa (Editor), Daisaku Yamamoto (Editor)
Year: 2017
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 978-1138193796
Climate Change and Natural Disasters: Transforming Economies and Policies fora Sustainable Future
Authors: Vinod Thomas (Author)
Year: 2017
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 978-1412864404
Flood Risk Management and Response
Authors: D. Proverbs (Author, Editor), C. A. Brebbia (Editor)
Year: 2016
Publisher: WIT Press / Computational Mechanics
ISBN: 978-1784662417

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Natural Disaster Risk Management: Geosciences and Social Responsibility
Authors: Ulrich Ranke (Author)
Year: 2016
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 978-1784662417
Reducing Disaster Risk by Managing Urban Land Use: Guidance Notes forPlanners
Authors:
Year: 2016
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 978-92-9257-475-8
Huge levels of aid are spent on reconstructing housing after disasters. Havethese houses Still Standing?: Looking Back at Reconstruction and Disaster Risk
Reduction in Housing
Authors: Theo Schilderman (Editor), Eleanor Parker (Editor)
Year: 2016
Publisher: Practical Action
ISBN: 185339839X
Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation in Practice
Authors: Fabrice G. Renaud (Editor), Karen Sudmeier-Rieux (Editor), Marisol
Estrella (Editor), Udo Nehren (Editor)
Year: 2016
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319436317
Disasters: Learning the Lessons for a Safer World
Authors: David Eves
Year: 2016
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1138144231
Identifying Emerging Issues in Disaster Risk Reduction, Migration, Climate
Change and Sustainable Development: Shaping Debates and Policies
Authors: Karen Sudmeier-Rieux (Editor), Manuela Fernández (Editor), Ivanna
Penna (Editor), Michel Jaboyedoff (Editor), JC Gaillard (Editor)
Year: 2016
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319338781
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Authors: Yoshiki Yamagata (Editor), Hiroshi Maruyama (Editor)
Year: 2016
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319398105
Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Hazards
Authors:
Walter Leal Filho (Editor), Haruna Musa (Editor), Gina Cavan(Editor), Paul O'Hare (Editor), Julia Seixas (Editor)
Year: 2016
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319398792
Disaster Risk Reduction and the Global System: Ruminations on a Way Forward
Authors: Michael Gordy (Author)
Year: 2016
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319416669
Natural Disasters in China
Authors: Peijun Shi (Editor)
Year: 2016
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3662502682
Disaster Risk Reduction: Cases from Urban Africa
Authors: Mark Pelling and Ben Wisner
Year: 2016
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1138002054
Mathematics Geostatistical and Geospatial Approaches for the Characterizationof Natural Resources in the Environment: Challenges, Processes and Strategies
Authors: N. Janardhana Raju (Editor)
Year: 2016
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319186620

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National Flood Insurance: Management and Accountability in the Wake ofSuperstorm Sandy
Authors: Brenda Murphy (Editor)
Year: 2016
Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc
ISBN: 1634843797
Content: Estimating Fatality Rates for Earthquake Loss Models
Authors: Emily So (Author)
Year: 2016
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319268376
Resilience by Design
Authors: Alexandra Jayeun Lee (Author)
Year: 2016
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319306391
Disaster Resilience After Hurricane Sandy: Enhancement Efforts, Use of Funds,
and National Mitigation Framework
Authors: Johnathan Carr (Editor)
Year: 2016
Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc
ISBN: 1634846451
Content: Implementing Climate Change Adaptation in Cities and Communities: Integrating
Strategies and Educational Approaches
Authors: Walter Leal Filho (Editor), Kathryn Adamson (Editor), Rachel Dunk
(Editor), Ulisses M. Azeiteiro (Editor), Sam Illingworth (Editor), Fatima Alves(Editor)Year: 2016
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319285890
Extreme Weather, Health, and Communities: Interdisciplinary Engagement
Strategies
Authors: Sheila Lakshmi Steinberg (Editor), William Sprigg (Editor)
Year: 2016
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Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319306243
Disaster Resilience of Education Systems: Experiences from Japan
Authors: Koichi Shiwaku (Editor), Aiko Sakurai (Editor), Rajib Shaw (Editor)
Year: 2016
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 4431559809
The Handbook of Disaster and Emergency Policies and Institutions
Authors: John Handmer (Author), Stephen Dovers (Author)
Year: 2016
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113897188X
Managing Extreme Climate Change Risks through Insurance
Authors: W. J. Wouter Botzen (Editor)
Year: 2016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316600882

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7. Selected Article References
Aliperti, G., Nagai, H., & Cruz, A. M. (2020). Communicating risk to tourists:A
mentalmodelsapproachtoidentifying
gaps
andmisperceptions. Tourism Management Perspectives, 33, 100615.
Collins, A. E. (2019). Advancing disaster and conflict risk reduction. In
Climate change, disasters, sustainability transition and peace in the
Anthropocene (pp. 7-26). Springer, Cham.
Cooper MW, Brown ME, Hochrainer-Stigler S, Pflug G, McCallum I, Fritz S,
Silva J, & Zvoleff A (2019). Mapping the effects of drought on childstunting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,doi:10.1073/pnas.1905228116.
Dolatabadi, P. D., Khanlari, K., Ashtiany, M. G., & Hosseini, M. (2020).
System identification method by using inverse solution of equations of
motion in time domain and noisy condition. Physica A: Statistical
Mechanics and its Applications, 538, 122680.
Dormady, N., A. Roa-Henriquez, and A. Rose. 2019. “Economic Resilienceof the Firm: A Production Theory Approach,” International Journal of
Production
Economics 208:
44660. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2018.07.017
Gaupp, F., Hall, J., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., & Dadson, S. (2020). Changing
risks of simultaneous global breadbasket failure. Nature Climate
Change, 10(1), 54-57.
Jiang, X., Mori, N., Tatano, H., & Yang, L. (2019). Simulation-Based
Exceedance Probability Curves to Assess the Economic Impact ofStorm Surge Inundations due to Climate Change: A Case Study in
Ise Bay, Japan. Sustainability, 11(4), 1090.
Kajitani, Y., & Tatano, H. (2019). Advantages of the Regional and Sectoral
Disaggregation of a Spatial Computable General Equilibrium Modelfor the Economic Impact Analysis of Natural Disasters. In Advancesin Spatial and Economic Modeling of Disaster Impacts (pp. 327-358).
Springer, Cham.
Laurien, F., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Keating, A., Campbell, K., Mechler, R.,& Czajkowski, J. (2020). A typology of community flood
resilience. Regional Environmental Change, 20(1), 1-14.
Nagamatsu, S., A. Rose and J. Eyer. 2019. “Return Migration andDecontamination after the 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

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Ogawa Y, Akiyama Y, Yokomatsu M, Sekimoto Y, & Shibasaki R (2019).
Estimation of Supply Chain Network Disruption of Companies Acrossthe Country Affected by the Nankai Trough Earthquake Tsunami in
Kochi City. Journal of Disaster Research 14 (3): 508-520.
DOI:10.20965/jdr.2019.p0508.
Rose, A. 2019. “Incorporating Cyber Resilience into Computable General
Equilibrium Models,” in Y. Okuyama and A. Rose (eds.), Advances in
Spatial and Economic Modeling of Disaster Impacts, Heidelberg,
Springer, pp. 99-120.
Rose, A., Ganderton, P., Eyer, J., Wei, D., Bostic, R., & von Winterfeldt, D.
(2020). The role of a deductible/credit system for post-disaster public
assistance in meeting alternative policy goals. Journal ofEnvironmental Planning and Management, 1-31
Rose, A., N. Miller, J. Eyer, and J. Banks (2019). Economic Mitigation ofand Resilience to Cyber Threats, in A. Kott and I. Linkov and (eds.),
Cyber Resilience of Systems and Networks. Heidelberg: Springer.
Suarez-Paba, Maria Camila, Mathis Perreur, Felipe Munoz, and Ana Maria
Cruz. "Systematic literature review and qualitative meta-analysis of
Natech research in the past four decades." Safety science 116(2019): 58-77.
von Winterfeldt, D., Farrow, S., John, R., Eyer, J., Rose, A., and Rosoff, H.
2019. “Assessing the Benefits and Costs of Homeland Security
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9. Miscellaneous
New Graduate Degree Program:
We are pleased to announce a new blended Master of Science (MSc)
Disaster Management: Resilience, Response and Relief course at the
Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at The University ofManchester. Offered jointly with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
this programme is designed for participants who intend to develop
theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in the disaster risk
management and humanitarian contexts. Graduates will be equipped towork and become leaders in the fields of disaster management,
humanitarianism, and other related fields. This programme will further
enhance students’ personal and professional development and provide
important collaborative links globally. The application deadline for the fallsemester is 29 April 2016. For more information please visit HCRI’s
website(http://www.hcri.manchester.ac.uk/study-with-us/postgraduatetaught/).
Young Scientists Summer Program
Since 1977, IIASA’s annual 3-month Young Scientists Summer Program(YSSP) offers research opportunities to talented young researchers whose
interests correspond with IIASA’s ongoing research on issues of global
environmental, economic and social change. From June through August
accepted participants work within the Institute’s research programs under
the guidance of IIASA scientific staff. Funding is provided through
IIASA's National Member Organizations.
The program is designed for PhD students (ideally about 2 years prior toreceiving their PhD) working on a field compatible with ongoing research at
IIASA and a wish to explore the policy implications of their work.
Participants will be working under the direct supervision of an experienced
IIASA scientist in a unique interdisciplinary and international research
environment. They will produce a paper (serving as first step towards apublishable journal article) and will get the opportunity to build up contacts
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How to apply?
Candidates apply via the online application form (find the 'APPLY NOW'
banner on the right side during the application period). Applicants canchose 1-2 programs. If there is additional is interest in one of our flagshipprojects this can be indicated in the box provided in the application form
(under "please justify your choice of programs here"). We strongly
encourage contacting the various program representatives and carefully
read through all program descriptions before making your decision.
Applicants from all countries are welcome, although IIASA gives priority to
citizens or residents of NMO countries. Participation in the YSSP is only
possible for one summer (however, you may apply several times).
Website:http://www.iiasa.ac.at/web/home/education/yssp/about.html

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Other Newsletters:-

IISD Reporting Services: Free newsletters and lists for environment andsustainable development issues.
Website: http://www.iisd.ca/email/subscribe.htm-

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Natural Hazards Group Newsletters:
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Disaster Research: DISASTER RESEARCH (DR) is a moderated newsletter for
creators and users of information about hazards and disasters.
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Emergency Manager’s Weekly Report:
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KatNet-Newsletter: (mostly in German language)
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EM-DAT: International Disaster Database Newsletter (CRED)
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DSCRN: Disaster and Social Crisis Research Network Newsletter
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Newsletter Committee:
Head:
Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
IIASA- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Email: hochrain@iiasa.ac.at
Muneta Yokomatsu
Research Center for Disaster Reduction Systems,
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
E-mail: yoko@drs.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Ana Maria Cruz
Consultant, Natech Risk Management
Bordeaux, France
E-mail: cruzanamaria2000@yahoo.com
Matt Dorfstaetter
Managing Director
Adaptive by Design, Australia
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