Beschreibung:
Building upon presentations given during the conference on 'Disaster Risk Reduction for Natural Hazards: Putting Research into Practice', held at University College London in November 2009, the articles collected in this book examine how natural hazards research is accessed and used by practitioners and decision-makers, and conversely, how policy and practice inform research.
Preface 1. Culture and disaster risk reduction: Lessons and opportunities 2. Disaster-induced migration: Assessing the impact of extreme weather events on livelihoods 3. Building livelihoods to reduce risk among the most marginalized in urban areas: Strategic approaches from Dhaka 4. Evaluating critical links in early warning systems for natural hazards 5. 'Community' perceptions of a disaster risk reduction intervention at Santa Ana (Ilamatepec) Volcano, El Salvador 6. Why 'small is beautiful' in municipal disaster risk reduction: Evidence from the Yucatán peninsula, Mexico 7. Conference summary on disaster risk reduction for natural hazards: Putting research into practice