Climate change, disaster risks, and human security Asian experience and perspectives /

Climate change, disaster risks, and human security [electronic resource] : Asian experience and perspectives / Juan M. Pulhin, Makoto Inoue, Rajib Shaw, editors.

This book explores how climate change and disaster risks threaten human security in Asia. Climate change and disaster risks have emerged as major human security challenges in the twenty-first century, and are an imminent threat multiplier with the potential to harm the vital core of human life and c...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Pulhin, Juan M., Inoue, Makoto, Shaw, Rajib
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer, 2021.
Series:Disaster risk reduction.
Subjects:
Climatic changes > Asia.
Emergency management > Asia.
Climatic changes > Risk management > Asia.
Climatic changes.
Climatic changes > Risk management.
Emergency management.
Asia.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Editors and Contributors
  • About the Editors
  • List of Contributors
  • Abbreviations and Acronyms
  • 1 Climate Change and Disaster Risks in an Unsecured World
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Climate Change and Disaster Risks in Asia
  • 1.3 Human Security in the Context of Climate Change and Disaster Risks: A Framework of Analysis
  • 1.4 Organization of the Book
  • References
  • 2 Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation, and Human Security: A Historical Perspective Under the Hyogo Framework and Beyond
  • 2.1 Introduction.
  • 2.2 Reflections on the Progress in Reducing Underlying Risk Factors
  • 2.2.1 Major Achievements in Priority Areas
  • 2.2.2 Major Gaps and Challenges
  • 2.3 Discussion and Key Recommendations
  • 2.3.1 Reduce the Underlying Risk Factors for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development
  • 2.3.2 Enhance Economic Viability of Risk Reduction Measures
  • 2.3.3 Institutionalize Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction
  • 2.3.4 Address Risk Reduction in Recovery
  • 2.3.5 Enhance DRR Education to Help Reduce Underlying Risk Factors
  • 2.4 Final Remarks
  • References.
  • 3 State Fragility and Human Security in Asia in the Context of Climate and Disaster Risks
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Climate-Fragility Risks are Significant
  • 3.3 Climate-Fragility in the Context of Japan
  • 3.3.1 Internal Factors of Climate-Fragility
  • 3.3.2 External Factors of Climate Fragility
  • 3.4 Methodology
  • 3.4.1 Stakeholder Perspectives on Climate-Fragility Risks
  • 3.4.2 Comparing Countries on Climate-Fragility Risks
  • 3.5 Results and Discussion
  • 3.5.1 Stakeholder Perceptions of Climate-Fragility Risks
  • 3.5.2 Fragility Risks in Japan.
  • 3.5.3 Comparing Countries in Terms of Climate-Fragility Risks
  • 3.6 Conclusions
  • References
  • 4 Policies and Institutions Shaping Human Security in an Era of Changing Climate and Increasing Disasters
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Role of Policies and Institutions in Human Development
  • 4.2.1 State and Development
  • 4.2.2 Development Effectiveness and Policies
  • 4.3 Human Security and Policies
  • 4.3.1 Human Security as a Policy Framework
  • 4.3.2 Human Security as an Outcome of Policies
  • 4.3.3 Human Security and Disaster Risk Reduction Policies.
  • 4.3.4 Human Security and Climate Change Policies
  • 4.3.5 Policy Effectiveness for Human Security
  • 4.4 Human Security and Institutions
  • 4.4.1 Formal vs. Informal Institutions
  • 4.4.2 Social and Solidarity Economy and Human Security
  • 4.4.3 Private Institutions and Human Security
  • 4.4.4 Institutional Failure and Human Insecurity
  • 4.5 Policy and Institutional Indicators of Human Security
  • 4.6 Limitations of Human Security as a Policy Imperative
  • 4.7 Conclusion
  • References
  • 5 Satisfying the Basic Needs: The Material Aspect of Human Security
  • 5.1 Introduction.

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