Measuring vulnerability to natural hazards
Subtitle: towards disaster resilient societies
By: edited by Jörn Birkmann
Contributors: UNU-EHS Expert Working Group on Measuring Vulnerability
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Tokyo; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 686
ISBN-13: 9789280812022; 9789280871715
Subjects: Natural disasters; Environmental risk assessment; Emergency management; Planning; Human security
Notes: "The present volume is an output of the ongoing work of the Expert Working Group on Measuring Vulnerability established and organized by UNU-EHS"--Foreword.

Completely revised second edition, including new chapters and findings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Measuring vulnerability to promote disaster-resilient societies and to enhance adaptation : conceptual frameworks and definitions  -- Jörn Birkmann; title: Data, indicators and criteria for measuring vulnerability : theoretical bases and requirements  -- Jörn Birkmann; title: Environmental components of vulnerability  -- Fabrice G. Renaud; title: Crafting integrated early warning information systems : the case of drought  -- Roger S. Pulwarty and James Verdin; title: Archetypical patterns of vulnerability to environmental change : an approach to bridging scales. Lessons learned from UNEP's Fourth Global Environment Outlook  -- Marcel T.J. Kok and Jill Jäger; title: Review of global risk index projects : conclusions for sub-national and local approaches  -- Mark Pelling; title: The global risk analysis for the 2009 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction  -- Pascal Peduzzi; title: Disaster risk hotspots : a project summary  -- Maxx Dilley; title: The WorldRiskIndex : a concept for the assessment of risk and vulnerability at national and local scale  -- Torsten Welle, Jörn Birkmann, Dunja Krause, Dora C. Suarez, Neysa J. Setiadi and Jan Wolfertz; title: System of indicators of disaster risk and risk management for the Americas : recent updating and application of the IDB-IDEA approach -- Omar D. Cardona and Martha L. Carreño; title: Multi-risk and vulnerability assessment of Europe's regions  -- Stefan Greiving; title: The evolution of the Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI)  -- Susan L. Cutter and Daniel P. Morath; title: Disaster vulnerability assessment : the Tanzania experience  -- Robert B. Kiunsi and Meshack V. Minoris; title: Assessment of vulnerability to natural hazards and climate change in mountain environments  -- Stefan Schneiderbauer, Marc Zebisch, Steve Kass and Lydia Pedoth; title: Community-based risk index : pilot implementation in Indonesia  -- Christina Bollin and Ria Hidajat; title: Mapping vulnerability : integration of GIScience and participatory approaches at the local and district levels  -- Stefan Kienberger; title: Vulnerability assessment : the sector approach  -- Juan Carlos Villagrán de León; title: Self-assessment of coping capacity : participatory, proactive and qualitative engagement of communities in their own risk management  -- Ben Wisner; title: Assessing institutionalized capacities and practices to reduce the risks of flood disaster  -- Louis Lebel, Elena Nikitina, Vladimir Kotov and Jesse Manuta; title: Public sector fiscal vulnerability to disasters : the IIASA CATSIM model  -- Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Reinhard Mechler and Georg Pflug; title: Dynamics of vulnerability : relocation in the context of natural hazards and disasters  -- Jörn Birkmann, Matthias Garschagen, Nishara Fernando, Vo Van Tuan, Anthony Oliver-Smith and Siri Hettige; title: Conclusion  -- Jörn Birkmann; title: Components of risk : a comparative glossary -- Katharina Marre.