International Society for
Integrated Disaster Risk
Management

IDRiM Newsletter
Issue 17, March 2019

Contents
1. IDRIM NEWS .................................................... 3
2. Other NEWS................................................... 12
3. Book Review .................................................. 22
4. Conference Announcements ......................... 24
5. Internet Resource List ................................... 27
6. Disaster Related Journals .............................. 29
7. New Books ..................................................... 32
8. Selected Article References ........................... 47

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1. IDRIM NEWS

IDRiM Conference 201916-18 OCTOBER, NICE, FRANCEKNOWLEDGE-BASED DISASTER RISKMANAGEMENTBROADENING THE SCOPE BY "SMARTTERRITORIES" FOR SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT
CITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS
Call for individual paper abstracts and special
session/workshop proposals
The International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM)
was officially launched on October 15, 2009 in Kyoto, Japan, at the 9th
IIASA-DPRI Forum on Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM
Forum). The 3 last annual conferences were held in: Isfahan, Iran in October 2016 “Disaster and Development: Towards a
Risk Aware Society”.
 Reykjavik, Iceland in August, 2017 “Dimensions of Disaster Risk
Reduction and Societal Resilience in a Complex World”.
 Sydney, Australia in October 2018 “Data-Driven Approaches toIntegrated Disaster Management”.
The next IDRIM Conference will take place in Nice, France on October 16 18, 2018. The 2019 annual event for researchers and practitioners in
integrated disaster risk management (IDRiM) will focus on the issues of“Knowledge-based Disaster Risk Management: Broadening the scopeby "Smart Territories" for Sustainable and Resilient Cities andOrganizations”.
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The main themes of “Smart” are related to integrating the “knowledge
society and knowledge economy, sustainable development, and social
inclusion”, with complexity theory, such as, for example, the important roleof interconnectivity of networks and feedback effects. How and when thisconnectivity becomes positive or negative is both a challenge for “hard”
sciences (e.g. what are the formal methods that provide valid tools toassess the efficiency of networks, as in see graph theory) and “soft”
sciences in the field of risk, resilience and disasters (e.g. participative anddeliberative governance frameworks).
The denomination “Smart City” is commonly given to an urban area thatincorporates information and communication technologies to enhance thequality and performance of services such as, for example, energy,transportation and utilities in order to reduce resource consumption, waste
and overall costs. A Smart City could contribute to enhancing the quality ofliving for its citizens through smart technologies. The main focus is on
physical networks connectivity.
A territory is an organization that includes a set of sub-component
organizations. These organizations can be regions, cities, villages,
hamlets… They can be companies (e.g. industries, pipelines). They can bephysical entities or legal entities. They can be visible or invisible (e.g. social
networks).
To understand how a territory can be “Smart”, we have to look both at thewhole territorial organization and the interaction between theseorganizations at the broader level.
One of the distinctions made by geographers and regional scientists is that
“Smart Territories” examine themes such as economic, social activity, andgovernance at different scales (large heterogeneous areas versus smaller,
primarily urban, areas). Another aspect is the relationship between cities
and their hinterlands.
The IDRiM2019 conference brings together researchers and scientists,
regulators, risk and insurance, safety and security practitioners, media andNGOs to share expertise and practices on these two challenges:
 How to improve the common understanding of major extreme risks,
man-made and natural disasters;
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The local organizers are CNRS-University of Nice (UMR ESPACE) and
AFPCN (French Society for the Prevention of Natural Disasters) and theirnational/local partners.
The location of the conference was carefully selected. The Alpes-Coted'Azur region is exposed to several natural risks (e. g. flooding), industrial
risks (e. g. industry, transport of dangerous goods) and societal risks (e. g.
terrorism). It is also an attractive conference venue.
IDRiM2019 encourages the submission of abstracts from all realms ofengineering, human and social, natural, risk in safety-security-healthenvironment, and other fields and sciences, to address the two challenges
listed above to contribute to smart territories for sustainable and resilient
cities and organizations in the face of disasters. Interdisciplinary and crosssectoral approaches are needed to cope with such complex challenges.
The IDRiM2019 program includes plenary keynote speeches and expert
panel interviews and discussions, as well as a wide selection of oral andposter presentations, including “young scientist” sessions and an award forthe best young scientist paper and/or oral presentation of a poster. It will
also include tutorials on core concepts, methods and tools that have beendeveloped by the IDRiM community.
Disaster risk management presents unique challenges that require truly
multi-disciplinary, and hence multi-sectoral perspectives and contributions
emphasizing such aspects are most welcome.
A suggested list of relevant topics that will be discussed at the conference
is provided below.
AREAS
 Natural hazards- Seismic- Flooding- Subsidence- Hurricanes- Landslides- Volcanic eruption- Wildfire
Page 5 Technological and manmade hazards- Chemical and petrochemical industry- Nuclear industry- New and emergent technologies- Transportation- Natech- Critical infrastructures- Cyber attacks- Terrorism
 Complex hazard interactions and systemic risks- Climate change and its impact- Natech- Epidemics / pandemics- Critical infrastructures
TOPICS Learning from experience- Organizations, territories and experience feedback- Expertise and knowledge management- Weak signals- Early warning systems
 Social and human sciences for risk and disaster management- Human, organizational and societal factors- Risk perception, communication and governance- Systemic approaches- Risk and safety culture- Resilience, vulnerability and sustainability: concepts andapplications- History and learning from major accidents and disasters- Territorial and geographical approaches to major accidents anddisasters- Social and behavioral aspects
 Cross-disciplinary challenges for integrated disaster risk
management- Compound/cascading disasters (simultaneous and/or co-located)and Mega-disasters
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- Connecting observed data and disaster risk management
decision-making- Practical applications of Integrated Disaster Risk Management- Development and disasters- Build Back Better (than Before)- Disaster-driven innovation and transformation- STGs and disaster governanceComplex systems- Complexity Modeling- System of Systems / Distributed Systems- Critical Infrastructures- Probabilistic Networks
Economics and Insurance- Disaster impacts and economic loss estimation- Cost-benefit approaches- Insurance and reinsurance
Decision, risk and uncertainty- Decision aiding and decision analysis.
- Disaster risk communication- Ethics.
- Gender- Responsibility- Governance, citizen participation and deliberation- Community engagement and communication- Scientific evidence-based decision-making, modelling andanalytics- Policy analysis- Uncertainty and ambiguity- Multi-criteria decision aid and analysis- Operational research
Artificial intelligence, big data and text data mining- Disaster informatics, big data, etc.
- Deep learning- Neural networks- Experts systems- Text data mining
Engineering Models
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- Numerical modelling & functional numerical modeling- Formal models / formal proofs- Model-based approach- Safe and resilient design and management.
 Legislation, standardization and implementation- Certification and standardization.
- Regulation and legislation.
- Legal issues (scientific expertise, liability, etc.).
- Precautionary principle and risk control and mitigation.
SIGNIFICANCE TO THE FIELD
 Demonstrates current theory or practice Employs established methods to a new question Presents new data Presents new analysis
 Presents a new model Groundbreaking
 Assesses developments in the field, in one or more countries
 Other (Please specify)
EXPECTED CONTRIBUTIONS Theoretical Applied Theoretical and Applied
 Review
 Perspective
 Other (Please specify, e.g. success/failure practices, lessons
learned, and other implementation evidence)
SPECIAL SESSION AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALSSpecial Session Proposals (SSP) or Workshop Proposals (WP) are mostwelcome, as soon as they are submitted by a group of proponents who
have already established a joint proposal.
Special session or workshop proposal submission deadline: 15 April 2019.
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CALL FOR INDIVIDUAL PAPERSESSION/WORKSHOP PROPOSALSABSTRACTS

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SPECIAL

Abstracts, symposiums and roundtables are welcome.
An author may co-author any number of submissions but, as presenting
author, may submit a maximum of 2 abstracts.
MEETING FORMAT
We welcome abstracts and presentations in one of the following formats: Poster Presentation/Poster Platform Presentations Poster sessions
will be grouped by “areas” and “topics”.
 Oral Presentation will be grouped by “areas” and “topics” andassigned a session chair by the Scientific Committee. Each oralpresentation should take 15 minutes, followed by 5 minutes foraudience questions and comments.
For posters and oral presentations, submit an abstract and choose
between the areas and topics. You will have to give additional precisions
on the significance of your contribution to the IDRIM field and on thenature of expected contributions.
 Symposia address a particular subject of interest through amultidisciplinary format. Symposium proposals are submitted assuch, and are not organized by the scientific Committee. Generally,
symposia follow the same format as the oral presentations andshould be limited to one 1½-hour session to the extent possible.
Preference will be given by the Scientific Committee to symposium
proposals that truly reflect several Disaster risks-related disciplines.
 Roundtable addresses a high-visibility topic of special interest in a
90-minute panel discussion format. The organizer submits an
abstract that describes the topic and what the audience should
expect to gain from the discussion. The organizer also lists themoderator and panelists, and their emails.
INSTRUCTION FOR SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS AND PAPERS:- Abstract submission deadline: 27 March 2019.
- SSP or WP special submission deadline : 15 April 2019- Notification of abstract approval: 30 April 2019.
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- Paper submission (special issues of IDRiM-affiliated journals): 30
June 2019.
- Notification of paper approval: 15 August 2019.
Abstracts are to be no more than 400 words. They should identify the
Presentation’s Expected Contribution(s) and Significance to the Field ofIntegrated Disaster Risk Management and identify related areas and fields.
Website: https://idrim2019.com/
https://idrim2019.com/call-for-abstracts/

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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 NEWSUN 20-year review:
Economic losses, poverty &disasters: 1998-2017
From the press release (https://www.unisdr.org/archive/61121): “The last twenty
years have seen a dramatic rise of 151% in direct economic losses from climaterelated disasters, according to a report released today by the UN Office forDisaster Risk Reduction in advance of International Day for Disaster Reduction
on October 13.
In the period 1998-2017, disaster-hit countries reported direct economic losses of
US$2,908 billion of which climate-related disasters accounted for US$ 2,245
billion or 77% of the total.
This compares with total reported losses for the period 1978-1997 of US$ 1,313
billion of which climate-related disasters accounted for US$895 billion or 68%.
In terms of occurrences, climate-related disasters also dominate the picture,accounting for 91% of all 7,255 major recorded events between 1998 and 2017.
Floods, 43.4%, and storms, 28.2%, are the two most frequently occurring
disasters.
The greatest economic losses have been experienced by the USA, US$ 944.8
billion; China, US$ 492.2 billion; Japan, US$ 376.3 billion; India, US$ 79.5 billion;
and Puerto Rico, US$ 71.7 billion. Storms, floods and earthquakes place three
European countries in the top ten for economic losses: France, US$ 48.3 billion;
Germany, US$ 57.9 billion; and Italy, US$ 56.6 billion. Thailand, US$ 52.4 billion,
and Mexico, US$ 46.5 billion, complete the list.
During this period, 1.3 million people lost their lives and 4.4 billion people were
injured, rendered homeless, displaced or in need of emergency assistance. 563
earthquakes, including related tsunamis, accounted for 56% of total deaths or
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The report “Economic Losses, Poverty and Disasters 1998-2017” drills down into
the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) maintained by the Centre for
Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) at the Catholic University ofLouvain, Belgium.
A key target of the global plan to reduce disaster losses, the Sendai Frameworkfor Disaster Risk Reduction, is to reduce economic losses from disasters and thereport highlights the fact that 63% of disaster reports contain no economic data.
Another key highlight is the disproportionate impact of disaster events on low andmiddle-income countries even if high-income countries bear the brunt of absolute
economic losses.
Only one high-income territory ranked among the “top ten” in terms of annual
average percentage losses relative to GDP, Puerto Rico, 12.2%. Moving acrossthe globe, the others are Haiti, 17.5%; Honduras, 7%; Cuba, 4.6%; El Salvador,
4.2%; Nicaragua, 3.6%; Georgia, 3.5%; Mongolia, 2.8%; Tajikistan, 2.7%; andDPR Korea, 7.4%.
The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Reduction,
Mami Mizutori, said: “This report highlights key trends over the last 40 years.
Much needs to be done to address the high number of deaths in seismic zones.
The death and suffering caused by this month’s earthquake and tsunami inIndonesia brings home the need to raise public awareness and to apply highstandards for construction in seismic zones.
“The report’s analysis makes it clear that economic losses from extreme weather
events are unsustainable and a major brake on eradicating poverty in hazard
exposed parts of the world.
“We have to do a much better job of capturing economic loss data if we are tohave a fuller understanding of what works when it comes to reducing economic
losses, saving lives and livelihoods, and managing disaster risk.”
While high-income countries recorded losses for 53% of reported disasters
between 1998 and 2017, low-income countries only recorded them for 13% ofdisasters.
Professor Debarati Guha-Sapir, head of CRED, commented: “This reporthighlights the protection gap between rich and poor. Those who are suffering themost from climate change are those who are contributing least to greenhousegas emissions. The economic losses suffered by low and lower-middle income
countries have drastic consequences for their future development.
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“Clearly there is great room for improvement in data collection on economic
losses but we know from our analysis of the available data using georeferencingthat people in low-income countries are six times more likely to lose all theirworldly possessions or suffer injury in a disaster than people in high-income
countries.”
The report concludes that climate change is increasing the frequency andseverity of extreme weather events, and that disasters will continue to be major
impediments to sustainable development so long as the economic incentives tobuild and develop hazard-prone locations outweigh the perceived disaster risks.
“Integrating disaster risk reduction into investment decisions is the most costeffective way to reduce these risks; investing in disaster risk reduction istherefore a pre-condition for developing sustainable in a changing climate,” thereport states”.
Website: https://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/publications/61119

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World Risk Report 2018
Focus Child Protection andChildren's Rights
From the Press Release:(https://reliefweb.int/report/world/world-risk-report-2018-focus-child-protectionand-childrens-rights):“Children are particularly at risk of physical injury and death during disaster
resulting from extreme natural events such as earthquakes and cyclones. That’s
one of the key findings of the WorldRiskReport 2018 with a focus on “Child
Protection and Children’s Rights.” The report was released today, one day before
Universal Children’s Day, by Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft and the Institute forInternational Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV) of Ruhr University
Bochum.
“In the chaos following natural disasters, the rights of young people guaranteedin the Convention on the Rights of the Child are often neglected to the point ofcriminality,” says Peter Mucke, project head of the WorldRiskReport andExecutive Director of Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft. “In extreme situations like these,children require better support, for instance, in the form of child protection
centers, where they receive food, care, and education.” Angelika Böhling,
Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft, emphasizes:“Children should play an active role not only in overcoming crises, but also in
preventing them.”
A key part of the report is dedicated to the WorldRiskIndex 2018, which indicatesthe risk for 172 countries where an extreme natural event may lead to a disaster.
The calculation formula takes into account a country’s exposure towards natural
hazards and its societal vulnerability.
“Of the 15 countries with the highest risk, nine are island nations,” says Katrin
Radtke, Professor at IFHV and scientific director of the report. “Of the 15
countries with the highest societal vulnerability, 13 are on the African continent.”
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the first time. Pierre Thielbörger, Executive Director of IFHV, points to theimportance of comparing disaster risks on a global level: “The drought in Europe
this summer showed once again that societies’ preparation for extreme natural
events is key.”
The WorldRiskReport has been published annually by Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft
since 2011. The WorldRiskIndex was developed in collaboration with United
Nation University’s Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU‐EHS).”
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Follow-up Report 2018 to theWorld Bank Unbreakable Reportpublished
Building back better
From the press release:
Source: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/06/18/buildingback-better-how-to-cut-natural-disaster-losses-by-a-third“When countries rebuild stronger, faster and more inclusively after natural
disasters they can reduce the impact on people’s livelihoods and well-being by
as much as 31%, potentially cutting global average losses from US$ 555 billion
to US$ 382 billion per year. That’s the conclusion of a new report from the WorldBank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR),
released today.
The report, Building Back Better: Achieving resilience through stronger, fasterand more inclusive post-disaster reconstruction, assesses socioeconomic
resilience and the impact of disasters on people’s well-being. It covers 149
countries, including 17 small island states, representing 95.5% of the world’s
population.
It finds that in small island states particularly, better post-disaster recovery andreconstruction efforts can reduce annual losses by an average of 59%.In 10
countries with a high level of risk – Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Guatemala,Trinidad and Tobago, Zimbabwe, Myanmar, Belize, Vanuatu, Peru and Angola –better reconstruction would reduce overall losses due to natural disasters bymore than 60%.
The report looks at the potential benefits of improving reconstruction so that it
minimizes the overall impact of disasters on affected populations, reduces futurerisks, and boosts resilience. Building on the recent Unbreakable report and its
methodology to factor in the higher vulnerability of people living in poverty, thereport looks at three dimensions:•
Building back stronger could reduce future well-being losses by ensuringthat reconstructed infrastructure and homes resist more intense events. If all
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post-disaster assets were designed to resist frequent disasters, annual disasterlosses would be reduced by 12 % in 20 years, delivering $65 billion in annual
benefits.
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Building back faster after natural disasters could reduce well-being losses
by 14 % – equivalent to a US$75 billion gain. These savings are especially
important to poor countries facing more frequent shocks, such as small islandstates and Sub-Saharan African countries.
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Building back more inclusively ensures that post-disaster support reaches
all affected people and that no-one is left behind, unable to recover. This would
help reduce disaster losses by 9 % – equivalent to a US$ 52 billion gain.
If implemented together – rebuilding stronger, faster, and more inclusively –major benefits totaling US$173 billion per year are possible. While the reportlargely focuses on stronger, faster, and more inclusive recovery processes, italso stresses that preparation is key to the principle of building back better.
The report reviews many examples of countries – from China to Dominica – thathave strengthened their ability to withstand the next natural shock, providing
lessons that can be replicated elsewhere to contribute toward a more resilient
future.”Report available at:https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/29867/127215.pdf
Unbreakable report available at:
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/512241480487839624/Unbreakablebuilding-the-resilience-of-the-poor-in-the-face-of-natural-disasters

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Global Risks Report 2018
Published
From the Press Release:(Source: http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2018/press-release/)“World Enters Critical Period of Intensified Risks in 2018”
Structural and interconnected nature of risks in 2018 threaten the very
system on which societies, economies and international relations are
based, according to The Global Risks Report 2018
The positive economic outlook gives leaders the opportunity to tackle
systemic fragility affecting societies, economies, international relations andthe environment, according to the report
Environmental risks dominate the Global Risk Perception Survey for thesecond year running; when we asked about risk trajectories in the coming
year, 59% of answers pointed to increasing risks

The report – which every January shares the perspectives of global experts anddecision-makers on the most significant risks that face the world – cautions that
we are struggling to keep up with the accelerating pace of change. It highlights
numerous areas where we are pushing systems to the brink, from extinction-level
rates of biodiversity loss to mounting concerns about the possibility of new wars.
The annual Global Risks Perception Survey (GRPS) suggests that experts arepreparing for another year of heightened risk. When we asked nearly 1,000
respondents for their views about the trajectory of risks in 2018, 59% of theiranswers pointed to an intensification of risks, compared with 7% pointing to
declining risks.
A deteriorating geopolitical landscape is partly to blame for the pessimistic
outlook in 2018, with 93% of respondents saying they expect political or
economic confrontations between major powers to worsen and nearly 80%
expecting an increase in risks associated with war involving major powers.
However, as in 2017, the environment was by far the greatest concern raised byexperts. Among the 30 global risks the experts were asked to prioritize in termsof likelihood and impact, all five environmental risks – extreme weather;biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse; major natural disasters; man-madeenvironmental disasters; and failure of climate-change mitigation and adaptation
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– were ranked highly on both dimensions. Extreme weather events were seen as
the single most prominent risk.
According to the GRPS, cyber threats are growing in prominence, with largescale cyberattacks now ranked third in terms of likelihood, while rising cyberdependency is ranked as the second most significant driver shaping the global
risks landscape over the next 10 years.
Economic risks, on the other hand, feature less prominently this year, leadingsome experts to worry that the improvement in global GDP growth rates maylead to complacency about persistent structural risks in the global economic andfinancial systems. Even so, inequality is ranked third among the underlying risk
drivers, and the most frequently cited interconnection of risks is that between
adverse consequences of technological advances and high structural
unemployment or under-employment.
“Future Shocks”
The growing complexity and interconnectedness of our global systems can leadto feedback loops, threshold effects and cascading disruptions. Sudden anddramatic breakdowns – future shocks – become more likely. In this year’s Global
Risks Report we present 10 short “what-if” scenarios, not as predictions but asfood for thought to encourage world leaders to assess the potential future shocks
that might rapidly and radically disrupt their worlds:
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Grim reaping: Simultaneous breadbasket failures threaten sufficiency of
global food supply
A tangled web: Artificial intelligence “weeds” proliferate, choking
performance of the internet
The death of trade: Trade wars cascade and multilateral institutions are
too weak to respond
Democracy buckles: New waves of populism threaten social order in one
or more mature democracies
Precision extinction: AI-piloted drone ships take illegal fishing to new –and even more unsustainable – levels
Into the abyss: Another financial crisis overwhelms policy responses andtriggers period of chaos
Inequality ingested: Bioengineering and cognition-enhancing drugs
entrench gulf between haves and have-nots
War without rules: State-on-state conflict escalates unpredictably in theabsence of agreed cyberwarfare rules
Identity geopolitics: Amid geopolitical flux, national identity becomes a
growing source of tension around contested borders
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Walled off: Cyberattacks, protectionism and regulatory divergence leads
to balkanization of the internet

The Global Risks Report 2018 has been developed with the support throughout
the past year of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Advisory Board. It
also benefits from ongoing collaboration with its Strategic Partners Marsh &McLennan Companies 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).”
Report available at:
http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2018

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3. Book Review
Loss and Damage from Climate Change: Concepts, Methods
and Policy Options.
Editors: Mechler, R., Bouwer, L., Schinko, T., Surminski, S.,
Linnerooth-Bayer, J.
Springer, 2018
There has been a long history of formal and informal deliberations
regarding climate justice with reference to sharing the burdens associatedwith responses to climate change. The focus has predominantly been on
climate mitigation responses, yet, over the last few years impact,
adaptation and risk issues have moved into the spotlight, to some extent
owing to the fact that evidence is mounting that climate change is alreadyhaving an impact, particularly in terms of affecting extreme events andvulnerable countries. In 2013, the Warsaw Loss and Damage Mechanism(WIM) has been set up by climate negotiators at COP 19 for “dealing withclimate-related effects, including residual impacts after adaptation.” Since
then, the WIM has been subject to very contentious debate: While someconsidered it the 3rd building block of negotiations under the UNFCCC,
others saw it merely as an attempt to establish liability, and suggest its
remit would be better covered under negotiations dealing with climate
adaptation. The UNFCCC in 2014 set up an Executive Committee anddevised a work programme to inform the deliberations. The WIM has been
finally endorsed at COP as a stand-alone article of the Paris agreement.
The exact focus and form of this mechanism is largely unclear and will see
heavy debate over the coming years scheduled for developing proposals,
whole a first stocktaking is planned for COP 22.
While the UNFCCC work programme will inform deliberations along theterms of reference identified, there is need and scope for more broadbased discussions taking a research focus while aiming to inform policy. A
number of promising avenues exist and have been preliminarily identified
for taking the debate further, such as focussing on climate risk
management and current international efforts for promoting disaster risk
management. There have been a few studies reporting on empirical
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identify the grounds for Loss and Damage (e.g., compared to adaptation),key principles to build on, as well as evidence regarding risk "beyond
adaptation" is missing.
The book by Mechler et al. (2018) is a stocktaking exercise highlighting thestate of the art of research, political debate and policy options on Loss andDamage and the debate on risks "beyond adaptation." The book is aimed
at informing research, policy-making and practice and the public throughout
regarding issues related to the WIM. It also goes beyond informing thispolicy mechanism by providing evidence-based research into the risks"beyond adaptation" faced by individuals communities and countries. The
book is composed of 5 sections, including setting the stage with 3 chapters,
critical issues for shaping the discourse with 6 chapters, geographic
perspectives and cases with 4 chapters, research and practice with 4
chapters, and last but not least policy options and other actions for the L&D
discourse consisting of 4 chapters.
The book offers and discusses successfully the multiple perspectives on
Loss and Damage, with a particular focus on climate extremes and climate
risk management. Importantly, it thoroughly debates the politics andinstitutional dimensions of the discourse focusing on the principles anddefinitions of Loss and Damage. This includes important ethical as well as
normative aspects which are central to the whole discourse but very often
not explicitly stated. It therefore should support the science-policy dialogue
on the WIM, with the focus on the identification of practical and evidencebased (e.g. through modelling approaches) policy and implementation
options for its operationalisation (e.g. within simulation methods). Given
the increased interest in Loss and Damage the book is a very relevant
contribution to the science-policy dialogue, with an emphasis on identifying
practical and evidence-based policy and implementation options for its
operationalisation as well as subsequent use in quantitative risk
management approaches.
Website: https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319720258

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4. Conference Announcements 16 October – 18 October 2019
IDRiM Conference 2019, Knowledge based disaster risk
management. Broadening the scope by “smart Territories” forsustainable resilience cities and Organizations.
The next IDRIM Conference will take place in Nice, France on
October 16 -18, 2018. The 2019 annual event for researchers andpractitioners in integrated disaster risk management (IDRiM) will
focus on the issues of “Knowledge-based Disaster Risk
Management: Broadening the scope by "Smart Territories" for
Sustainable and Resilient Cities and Organizations”. The main
themes of “Smart” are related to integrating the “knowledge society
and knowledge economy, sustainable development, and social
inclusion”, with complexity theory, such as, for example, the importantrole of interconnectivity of networks and feedback effects. How andwhen this connectivity becomes positive or negative is both achallenge for “hard” sciences (e.g. what are the formal methods thatprovide valid tools to assess the efficiency of networks, as in see
graph theory) and “soft” sciences in the field of risk, resilience anddisasters (e.g. participative and deliberative governance frameworks).
 13 March – 15 March 2019
4th Global Summit of Disaster Research Institutes for Disaster Risk
Reduction (4GSRIDRR2019); and GADRI General Assembly
The past Global Summits have continued to maintain an institutional
structure advocating importance of engagement in collaborative
research activities to accomplish disaster risk reduction and resilienceat a global level. The Sendai Framework Agenda for 2030 calls toincrease awareness on disaster risk reduction and resilience andimplement policies to prevent new risks. What could GADRI do tofurther promote the 2030 agenda of the Sendai Framework? GADRI
are committed to take a coherent and a global approach to disasterrisk reduction and resilience through its network of disaster research
institutes. The Fourth Global Summit under the theme of “Increasing
the effectiveness and relevance of our institutes” will explore: •GADRI contributions to the Science and Technology Roadmap; andPage 24the Tokyo Statement 2017 • Climate change and adaptation - What
engagement mechanisms and research linkages are needed ingovernments, localities, media, etc.? • To what extent are theseresearch directions and SDGs influences or impact the policymakers? • What are the targeted research areas in DRR? How is
disaster research management promoted? • Where are the fundingfor disaster risk reduction activities coming from and are they
invested to right causes and areas that are most needed? Expected
Outcomes: • learn from accumulated research knowledge of eachresearch institute • share information on ongoing project activities andAchievements • explore opportunities for collaborative and empiricalresearch activities • develop a statement of actions for various
stakeholders in DRR which could be presented at the Global Platform
2019.
Website: http://gadri.net/
 13 May – 17 May 2019
Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
The sixth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction(GP2019) will take place in Geneva, Switzerland from 13 to 17 May,
2019, convened and organized by the UN Office for Disaster Risk
Reduction (UNISDR) and hosted by the Government of Switzerland.
The session will be co-chaired by Switzerland and UNISDR. It will
represent the next important opportunity for the international
community to boost the implementation of the Sendai Framework andrelated Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda, as wellas commitments of the Paris Climate Agreement. It will be the last
global gathering for all stakeholders before the deadline for theachievement of Target E of the Sendai Framework: Substantially
increase the number of countries with national and local disaster risk
reduction strategies by 2020. The GP2019 will be organized under
the overall theme entitled: Resilience Dividend: Towards Sustainable
and Inclusive Societies. It will focus on how managing disaster risk
and risk-informed development investments pay dividends in multiple
sectors at all levels and throughout social, economic, financial andenvironmental fields.
Website: https://www.unisdr.org/conference/2019/globalplatform
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 25 September – 27 September 2019
6th International Conference on Disaster Management and Human
Health Risk: Reducing Risk, Improving Outcomes
The International Conference on Disaster Management is being
reconvened following the success of the previous meetings, held at
Wessex Institute in the New Forest in 2009, the University of Central
Florida in Orlando, USA in 2011, A Coruña, Spain in 2013, Istanbul
Technical University, Turkey in 2015 and Seville, Spain, 2017. This
series of conferences originated with the need for academia andpractitioners to exchange knowledge and experience on the way tohandle the increasing risk of natural and human-made disasters.
Recent major earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods and othernatural phenomena have resulted in huge losses in terms of humanlife and property destruction. A new range of human-made disasters
have afflicted humanity in modern times; terrorist activities have been
added to more classical disasters such as those due to the failure ofindustrial installations for instance.It is important to understand thenature of these global risks to be able to develop strategies toprepare for these events and plan effective responses in terms ofdisaster management and the associated human health impacts. The
conference provides a forum for the exchange of information between
academics and practitioners, and a venue for presentation of thelatest developments. The corresponding volume of WIT Transactions
containing the papers presented at the meetings are published in
paper and digital format and widely distributed around the world. The
papersarealsoarchived
intheWIT
elibrary(www.witpress.com/elibrary) where they are available to theinternational community.
Website:https://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2019/disastermanagement-2019

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5. 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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http://drh.edm.bosai.go.jp/


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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6. 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 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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Natural Hazards
www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/hydrogeology/journal/11069



Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Environmental Change
http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/meteorology+%26+cli
matology/journal/11027



Extremes
http://www.springer.com/statistics/journal/10687

International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment
http://www.disaster-resilience.salford.ac.uk/international-journal-of-disasterresilienceJournal of Disaster Research
http://www.fujipress.jp/JDR/JDR_about.html

Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management (AJEDM)
http://rpsonline.com.sg/journals/101-ajedm/ajedm.html

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
http://www.springer.com/13753



Disaster Advances
http://www.disasterjournal.net/

International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters
http://www.ijmed.org/

International Journal of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
http://www.sersc.org/journals/IJDRBC/Disaster Prevention and Management
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=dpm

Risk Analysis
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0272-4332&site=1

Journal of Risk Research
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=13669877&linktype=1

International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management (IJRAM)
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=24

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7. New Books
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 sociotechnicalresilience, 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, andPage 32

geography. 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,
equity and participation through bottom-up governance forms and co-evolution
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 about
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developments 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
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.

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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 theongoing 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 thePage 35

following 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 thecoordinated 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.

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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 andDamage 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.
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
Content: This study develops a methodology for rapidly obtaining approximate
estimates of the economic consequences from numerous natural, man-made andtechnological threats. This software tool is intended for use by various decision
makers and analysts to obtain estimates rapidly. It is programmed in Excel andVisual Basic for Applications (VBA) to facilitate its use. This tool is called E-CAT(Economic Consequence Analysis Tool) and accounts for the cumulative direct
and indirect impacts (including resilience and behavioral factors that significantly
affect base estimates) on the U.S. economy. E-CAT is intended to be a major
step toward advancing the current state of economic consequence analysis(ECA) and also contributing to and developing interest in further research into
complexbut
rapid
turnaroundapproaches.
The essence of the methodology involves running numerous simulations in acomputable general equilibrium (CGE) model for each threat, yielding synthetic
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data for the estimation of a single regression equation based on the identificationof key explanatory variables (threat characteristics and background conditions).
This transforms the results of a complex model, which is beyond the reach ofmost users, into a "reduced form" model that is readily comprehensible.
Functionality has been built into E-CAT so that its users can switch various
consequence categories on and off in order to create customized profiles of
economic consequences of numerous risk events. E-CAT incorporates
uncertainty on both the input and output side in the course of the analysis.
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
Content: This volume presents an economic framework for the analysis ofresilience in relation to societal, environmental, and personal security
perspectives. It offers a rigorous definition of economic resilience and an
operational metric, and it shows how they can be applied to measuring andapplying the concept to private and public decision making. Major dimensions ofresilience and their implications for human development are explored. Resilienceis emphasized as a coping mechanism for dealing with short-term crises, such as
natural disasters and acts of terrorism. As well, the author shows how lessons
learned in the short-run out of necessity and through the application of humaningenuity can be incorporated into long-run sustainability practices. In part, thisopportunity stems from viewing resilience as a process, one that enhancesindividual and societal competencies. The book links economic resilience toseveral other disciplines and examines the relationship between resilience andvarious other key concepts such as vulnerability, adaptation, and sustainability. It
scrutinizes the measurement of economic resilience in terms of temporal, spatial,
and scale dimensions. It examines the time-path of resilience and relates it to therecovery process. This work also looks closely at progress on the formulation ofresilience indices and stresses the importance of actionable variables. It presents
a risk-management framework, including aspects of cost-effectiveness and costbenefit analysis. Additionally, it explores the role of resilience in relation to the cobenefits of disaster risk management.

Risk Modeling for Hazards and Disasters
Authors: Gero Michel (Editor)
Year: 2017
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0128040718
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Content: Risk Modeling for Hazards and Disasters covers all major aspects ofcatastrophe risk modeling, from hazards through to financial analysis. It explores
relevant new science in risk modeling, indirect losses, assessment of impact andconsequences to insurance losses, and current changes in risk modelingpractice, along with case studies. It also provides further insight into theshortcomings of current models and examines model risk and ideas to diversify
risk assessment. Risk Modeling for Hazards and Disasters instructs readers on
how to assess, price and then hedge the losses from natural and manmade
catastrophes. This book reviews current model development and science andexplains recent changes in the catastrophe modeling space, including new
initiatives covering uncertainty and big data in the assessment of risk forinsurance pricing and portfolio management. Edited by a leading expert in both
hazards and risk, this book is authored by a global panel including major
modeling vendors, modeling consulting firms, and well-known catastrophe
modeling scientists. Risk Modeling for Hazards and Disasters provides important
insight into how models are used to price and manage risk. Includes high profilecase studies such as the Newcastle earthquake, Hurricane Andrew and
Hurricane Katrina. Provides crucial information on new ideas and platforms thatwill help address the new demands for risk management and catastrophe risk
reporting. Presents the theory and practice needed to know how models are
created and what is and what is not important in the modeling process. Covers
relevant new science in risk modeling, indirect losses, assessment of impact andconsequences to insurance losses, and current changes in risk modelingpractice, along with case studies
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
Content: This book covers both the practical and theoretical aspects ofcatastrophe modelling for insurance industry practitioners and public
policymakers. Written by authors with both academic and industry experience italso functions as an excellent graduate-level text and overview of the field. Ours
is a time of unprecedented levels of risk from both natural and anthropogenic
sources. Fortunately, it is also an era of relatively inexpensive technologies foruse in assessing those risks. The demand from both commercial and public
interests—including (re)insurers, NGOs, global disaster management agencies,
and local authorities—for sophisticated catastrophe risk assessment tools has
never been greater, and contemporary catastrophe modelling satisfies thatdemand. Combining the latest research with detailed coverage of state-of-the-art
catastrophe modelling techniques and technologies, this book delivers theknowledge needed to use, interpret, and build catastrophe models, and provides
greater insight into catastrophe modelling’s enormous potential and possible
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limitations. The first book containing the detailed, practical knowledge needed tosupport practitioners as effective catastrophe risk modellers and managers.
Includes hazard, vulnerability and financial material to provide the only
independent, comprehensive overview of the subject, accessible to students andpractitioners alike. Demonstrates the relevance of catastrophe models within apractical, decision-making framework and illustrates their many applications.
Includes contributions from many of the top names in the field, globally, fromindustry, academia, and government. Natural Catastrophe Risk Management andModelling: A Practitioner’s Guide is an important working resource forcatastrophe modelling analysts and developers, actuaries, underwriters, andthose working in compliance or regulatory functions related to catastrophe risk. It
is also valuable for scientists and engineers seeking to gain greater insight into
catastrophe risk management and its applications.
Natural Hazards: Earth's Processes as Hazards, Disasters, and Catastrophes
Authors: Edward A. Keller (Author), Duane E. DeVecchio (Author) Year: 2017
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1138090867
Content: Natural Hazards: Earth Processes as Hazards, Disasters andCatastrophes, Fourth Edition, is an introductory-level survey intended foruniversity and college courses that are concerned with earth processes that havedirect, and often sudden and violent, impacts on human society. The text
integrates principles of geology, hydrology, meteorology, climatology,
oceanography, soil science, ecology and solar system astronomy. The book isdesigned for a course in natural hazards for non-science majors, and a primary
goal of the text is to assist instructors in guiding students who may have little
background in science to understand physical earth processes as natural
hazards and their consequences to society. Natural Hazards uses historical torecent examples of hazards and disasters to explore how and why they happen
and what we can do to limit their effects. The text's up-to-date coverage of recent
disasters brings a fresh perspective to the material. The Fourth Edition continues
our new active learning approach that includes reinforcement of learning
objective with a fully updated visual program and pedagogical tools that highlight
fundamental concepts of the text. This program will provide an interactive andengaging learning experience for your students. Here's how: Provide a balanced
approach to the study of natural hazards: Focus on the basic earth science of
hazards as well as roles of human processes and effects on our planet in a
broader, more balanced approach to the study of natural hazards. Enhance
understanding and comprehension of natural hazards: Newly revised stories andcase studies give students a behind the scenes glimpse into how hazards areevaluated from a scientific and human perspective; the stories of real people who
survive natural hazards, and the lives and research of professionals who havecontributed significantly to the research of hazardous events.ã Strong
pedagogical tools reinforce the text's core features: Chapter structure and design
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organizes the material into three major sections to help students learn, digest,and review learning objectives.

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
Content: In March 2011 the whole world watched in shock when a tsunami
slammed into a nuclear power plant, causing a nuclear meltdown and raising thespectre of nuclear contamination. Raging fires and explosions at oil refineries in
the wake of the massive earthquake that triggered the tsunami also made theglobal headlines. These events clearly demonstrate the potential for natural
hazards to trigger fires, explosions, and toxic or radioactive releases fromindustrial activities that process, store or transport hazardous materials. These
technological “secondary effects” caused by natural hazards are also called“Natech” accidents. Elsevier has recently published the book “Natech risk
assessment and management – Reducing the risk of natural-hazard impact on
hazardous installations” which was co-authored by the European Commission’s
Joint Research Centre, Kyoto University and Bologna University, with a numberof chapter contributions by other institutions. It covers the entire spectrum ofissues pertinent to Natech risk assessment and management, and teaches
engineers, safety managers and decision makers how to safeguard hazardous
installations and pipelines against the impact of natural disasters. After athorough introduction of the topic, the book discusses various examples ofnational and international frameworks for major accident prevention andpreparedness and provides a detailed view of the implementation of Natech risk
management in the EU and OECD. The book also includes a dedicated chapter
on natural-hazard characterization and measurement from an engineering
perspective, as well as a discussion of selected Natech accidents, including
recent ones, and specific lessons learned from each. An important part of thebook is dedicated to Natech risk assessment and it provides an analysis of all
essential elements of the assessment process, as well as a presentation ofavailable support tools. The final section of the book addresses the reduction of
Natech risk, including structural and organizational prevention and mitigation
measures, as well as early warning issues and emergency planning. The book
is available directly from Elsevier or other major book sellers:
http://store.elsevier.com/Natech-Risk-Assessment-and-Management/ElisabethKrausmann/isbn-9780128038079/

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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
Content: This is the first book combining research on the Global Environment,
Catastrophic Risks and Economic Theory and Policy. Modern economic theory
originated in the middle of the twentieth century when industrial expansion
coupled with population growth led to a voracious use of natural resources andglobal environmental concerns. It is uncontested that, for the first time inrecorded history, humans dominate the planet, changing the planet's
atmosphere, its bodies of water, and the complex web of species that makes lifeon earth. This radical change in circumstances led to rethinking of thefoundations of human organization and, in particular, the industrial economy andthe economic theory behind it. This book brings together new approaches on
multiple levels: environmental sustainability requires rethinking in terms of
economic theory and policy as well as the considerations of catastrophic risk andextremal events. Leading experts address questions of economic governance,risk management, policy decision making and distribution across time and space.
Already listed new books in previous newsletters with publication date between
2015 and 2017:
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

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Flood Risk Management and Response
Authors: D. Proverbs (Author, Editor), C. A. Brebbia (Editor)
Year: 2016
Publisher: WIT Press / Computational Mechanics
ISBN: 978-1784662417
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

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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
Urban Resilience: A Transformative Approach
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

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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
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
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ISBN: 3319285890
Extreme Weather, Health, and Communities: Interdisciplinary Engagement
Strategies
Authors: Sheila Lakshmi Steinberg (Editor), William Sprigg (Editor)
Year: 2016
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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8. Selected Article References1
Aven, T., & Renn, O. (2018). Improving government policy on risk: Eightkey principles. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 176, 230241.
Chakraborty, A., Ibrahim, A., & Cruz, A. M. (2018). A study of accident
investigation methodologies applied to the Natech events during the2011 Great East Japan earthquake. Journal of Loss Prevention in theProcess Industries, 51, 208-222.
Chen, Z., Rose, A. Z., Prager, F., & Chatterjee, S. (2017). Economic
consequences of aviation system disruptions: A reduced-form
computable general equilibrium analysis. Transportation Research Part
A: Policy and Practice, 95, 207-226.
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.
Eyer, J., R. Dinterman, N. Miller, and A. Rose. (2018). “The Effect ofDisasters on Migration Destinations: Evidence from Hurricane
Katrina,” Economics of Disasters and Climate Change 2(1): 91-106.
Hochrainer-Stigler S, Balkovic J , Silm K, & Timonina-Farkas A (2018).
Large scale extreme risk assessment using copulas: an application
to drought events under climate change for Austria. Computational
Management Science, doi:10.1007/s10287-018-0339-4.
Hochrainer-Stigler S, Pflug G , Dieckmann U , Rovenskaya E, Thurner S,
Poledna S, Boza G, Linnerooth-Bayer J, and Brännström A. (2018).
Integrating Systemic Risk and Risk Analysis Using Copulas.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, doi:10.1007/s13753018-0198-1.
Hochrainer-Stigler, Stefan, Gergely Boza, Célian Colon, Sebastian
Poledna, Elena Rovenskaya, and Ulf Dieckmann (2018). Resilienceof Systems to Individual Risk and Systemic Risk. In: Trump, B. D.,
Florin, M.-V., & Linkov, I. (eds.). IRGC Resource Guide on
Resilience (vol. 2): Domains of resilience for complex interconnected
systems. Lausanne, CH: EPFL International Risk GovernanceCenter. Available at: https://irgc.epfl.ch/risk-governance/projectsresilience/1

To spread the information of published articles in the last year from IDRiM members to other IDRiM members we
now include selected and recent (not older than 1‐2 years) publications of IDRiM members (see theannouncements in the previous IDRiM News section for more details).

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IRCG (2018) Guidelines for the Governance of Systemic Risks. Lausanne:
International Risk Governance Center.
Ishiwata, H., & Yokomatsu, M. (2018). Dynamic Stochastic Macroeconomic
Model of Disaster Risk Reduction Investment in Developing
Countries. Risk Analysis, 38(11), 2424-2440.
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.
Kabir, G., Suda, H., Cruz, A. M., Giraldo, F. M., & Tesfamariam, S. (2019).
Earthquake-related Natech risk assessment using a Bayesian belief
network model. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 1-15.
Kotani, H., & Yokomatsu, M. (2018). Quantitative evaluation of the roles ofcommunity events and artifacts for social network formation: amultilayer network model of a community of practice. Computationaland Mathematical Organization Theory, 1-36.
Mavhura, E., Collins, A., & Bongo, P. P. (2017). Flood vulnerability andrelocation readiness in Zimbabwe. Disaster Prevention andManagement: An International Journal, 26(1).
Piccinelli, R., & Krausmann, E. (2018). North Europe power transmission
system vulnerability during extreme space weather. Journal of Space
Weather and Space Climate, 8, A03.
Prager, F. Z. Chen and A. Rose. (2018). “Estimating and Comparing
Economic Consequences of Multiple Threats: A Reduced-Form
Computable General Equilibrium Approach,” International Journal ofDisaster Risk Reduction 31: 51-67.
Rose, A. (2018). Distributional considerations for transboundary risk
governance of environmental threats. International Journal ofDisaster Risk Science, 9(4), 445-453.Rose, A., M. Samaddar, S.,
Ayaribilla, A. J., Oteng-Ababio, M., Dayour, F., & Yokomatsu, M.
(2019). Stakeholders’ Perceptions on Effective Community
Participation in Climate Change Adaptation. In Sustainable Solutions
for Food Security (pp. 355-379). Springer, Cham.
Xie, W., A. Rose, S. Li, J. He., N. Li, T. Ali, T., and W. Wei. (2018).
“Dynamic Economic Resilience and Economic Recovery from
Disasters: A Quantitative Assessment,” Risk Analysis, 38 (6), 130618.
Yokomatsu, M. (2018). A Commentary on “Recovery from Catastrophe andBuilding Back Better (Takeuchi and Tanaka, 2016)”–Structure ofPage 48

Damage of Production Capital Stock on Normative Economic
Process. Journal of Disaster Research, 13(3), 564-570.

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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
for future collaboration within IIASA's worldwide network.

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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.
Registrations for the 2019 program are being accepted from 1 Oct 2018 11 Jan 2019.
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-

The International Emergency Management Society Newsletter (TIEMS)
Website: http://www.tiems.info/-

Natural Hazards Group Newsletters:
Website: http://www.agu.org/focus_group/NH/about/newsletters/-

Disaster Research: DISASTER RESEARCH (DR) is a moderated newsletter for
creators and users of information about hazards and disasters.
Website: http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/dr/currentdr.html-

Emergency Manager’s Weekly Report:
Website:http://www.6pinternational.com/news.php?category=Emergency%20Managers%20
Weekly%20Report&-

KatNet-Newsletter: (mostly in German language)
Website: http://www.katastrophennetz.de/-

EM-DAT: International Disaster Database Newsletter (CRED)
Website: http://www.emdat.be/publications-

DSCRN: Disaster and Social Crisis Research Network Newsletter
Website: http://www.dscrn.org/cms/index.php?page=newsletter-

International Institute for Sustainable Development Newsletter: IISD Reporting
Services.
Website: Climate Change: http://climate-l.iisd.org/about-the-climate-l-mailing-list/
General Information: http://www.iisd.ca/-

Society of Risk Analysis Newsletter:
Website: http://www.sra.org/newsletter.php-

ULC Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction Newsletter:
Website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/rdr/irdr/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
Director, Digital, Intelligence & Operational Transformation
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services, Australia
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