Disaster Management International Lessons in Risk Reduction, Response and Recovery

There is a perennial gap between theory and practice, between academia and active professionals in the field of disaster management. This gap means that valuable lessons are not learned and people die or suffer as a result. This book opens a dialogue between theory and practice. It offers vital lessons to practitioners from scholarship on natural hazards, disaster risk management and reduction and developments studies, opening up new insights in accessible language with practical applications. It also offers to academics the insights of the enormous experience practitioners have accumulated, highlighting gaps in research and challenging assumptions and theories against the reality of experience. Disaster Management covers issues in all phases of the disaster cycle: preparedness, prevention, response and recovery. It also addresses cross-cutting issues including political, economic and social factors that influence differential vulnerability, and key areas of practice such as vulnerability mapping, early warning, infrastructure protection, emergency management, reconstruction, health care and education, and gender issues. The team of international authors combine their years of experience in research and the field to offer vital lessons for practitioners, academics and students alike.

1. Introduction:who what and why? Part 1: Prevention and Risk Reduction 2. Hazard, Vulnerability, Capacity, Risk and Participation 3. Gender aspects of Disaster Management 4. Community-based Disaster risk reduction and Disaster Management 5. People-centred early warning 6. Disaster Education in schools 7.Many strong voices for Climate Change Education: examples from Belize and Timor-Leste Part 2: Response and Recovery 8. Managing infrastructure, environment and disaster risk 9. emergency and disaster planning 10. common myths and misconceptions in Disaster Management 11. Health aspects of Disaster Management 12. Disaster insurance for the poor 13. Post-disaster recovery planning: Introductory notes on its challenges and potentials Part 3: Regional Perspectives 14. Experiences from Sub-Saharan Africa 15. Disaster Risk Management in Latin America and the Caribbean: Four decades of evolution and change, 1970 to 2010 16. Disaster Risk Management in the Asia-Pacific: emerging trends and directions 17. Integrating people’s capacities in Disaster Risk Reduction through participatory mapping, 18. A knowledge integration tool for Disaster Risk Reduction including Climate Change 19. Conclusion: Addressing all vulnerabilities

Alejandro López-Carresi is founder and director of CEDEM Centrefor Disaster and Emergency Managementin Madrid, Spain. Maureen Fordham is Principal Lecturer and Enterprise Fellow at theDepartment of Geography,Northumbria University, UK. Ben Wisner, whohas worked in development and hazardsfor 47 years, is a research affiliateat University College London, UK. Ilan Kelman is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo (CICERO) in Norway. JC Gaillard is an Associate Professor in the School of Environment at theUniversity of Auckland, New Zealand.