Events such as the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Japanese earthquakes and tsunamis in 2011 have provided unfortunate reminders of the susceptibility of many communities to devastating losses from natural hazards. These events provided graphic illustrations of how extreme hazard events adversely impact on people, affect communities and disrupt the community and societal mechanisms that serve to organize and sustain community capacities and functions. However, there is much that communities can do to mitigate their risk and manage disaster consequences. The construct that epitomizes how this is done is resilience. The contents of this volume provide valuable insights into how societal resilience can be developed and sustained. This considerably expanded new edition presents major topics of: Coexisting with Natural Hazards; Urban Resilience in Asia; Lifelines and Urban Resilience; Business Continuity in Disaster; Hazard Mitigation in Communities; Hazard Readiness and Resilience; Child Citizenship in Disaster Risk; Old Age and Resilience; Gender and Disaster Resilience; Impact of High Functionality on Resilience; Art and Resilience; Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Coping with Hazards; Religious Practices and Resilience; Living in Harmony with our Environment; Critical Incidence Response; Governance; Heat Wave Resilience; Wildfire Disaster Resilience; and Progress and Challenges to Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience. This exceptional book brings together contributions from international experts in core areas and includes chapters that provide and overarching framework within which the need for interrelationships between levels to be developed is discussed. The book will be an outstanding resource for those researching or teaching courses in emergency management, disaster management, community development, environmental planning and urban development. In addition, it will serve law enforcement and emergency agencies, welfare agencies, and professionals in applied psychology. Table of Contents: Preface CHAPTER 1—CO-EXISTING WITH NATURAL HAZARDS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES Douglas Paton CHAPTER 2—URBAN RESILIENCE: THE NEED FOR A NEW CONTEXT IN SOUTH ASIA Nitin Srivastava CHAPTER 3—LIFELINES AND URBAN RESILIENCE David Johnston, Julia Becker and Jim Cousins CHAPTER 4—CONSTRUCTION OF AN ECONOMIC RESILIENCE INDEX Adam Rose CHAPTER 5—BUSINESS CONTINUITY IN DISASTER CONTEXTS Douglas Paton and John McClure CHAPTER 6—HAZARD MITIGATION: A PRIORITY FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES Robert O. Schneider CHAPTER 7—HAZARD READINESS AND RESILIENCE Douglas Paton, José Kerstholt and Isabelle Skinner CHAPTER 8—CHILD CITIZENSHIP IN DISASTER RISK AND AFFECTED ENVIRONMENTS Lisa Gibbs, C. MacDougall, C. Mutch and P. O’Connor CHAPTER 9—New insights into old age and resiliency from a community perspective Odeya Cohen, Diklah Geva, Mooli Lahad, Arkady Bolotin, Dima Leykin, Avishay Goldberg and Limor Aharonson-Daniel CHAPTER 10—GENDER AND DISASTER RESILIENCE Cheney Shreve, Belinda Davis and Maureen Fordham CHAPTER 11—SOCIAL MEDIA AND EMERGENT GROUPS: THE IMPACT OF HIGH FUNCTIONALITY ON COMMUNITY RESILIENCE Melanie Irons and Douglas Paton, Douglas Paton, Ioannis Michaloudis, Etan Pavavalung, Kirby Clark, Petra Buergelt, Li-ju Jang and Grace Kuo CHAPTER 13—COPING WITH AND ADAPTING TO NATURAL HAZARD CONSEQUENCES: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES Douglas Paton, Li-ju Jang, Kaori Kitagawa, Ljubica Mamula-Seadon and Yingying Sun CHAPTER 14—RELIGIOUS PRACTICES AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE Steve Sutton
CHAPTER 15—LIVING WITH WIDDIJITH – PROTOCOLS FOR BUILDING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE IN REMOTE COMMUNITIES IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA Bevlyne Sithole with H. Hmalan Hunter-Xenie and H. Cherry Daniels, Grace Daniels, Kesley Daniels, Antony Daniels, Geraldine Daniels, Debra Daniels, Howard Turner, Cherry Anne Daniels, Tammy Daniels, Patrina Thomas, David Thomas (Ngukurr Community Based Research Team) and Dean Yibarbuk, Otto Bulmaniya Campion, Serina Namarnyilk, Evelyne Narorroga, Otto Dann, Kingswood Dirdi, Gwen Nayilibibj, Christine ?Brown (Gunbalanya Community Based Research Team) CHAPTER 16—LIVING IN HARMONY WITH OUR ENVIRONMENT: A PARADIGM SHIFT P. T. Buergelt, D. Paton, B. Sithole, K. Sangha, P.S.D.V Prasadarao, L. Campion, & J. Campion
CHAPTER 17—RESPONDING TO CRITICAL INCIDENTS AND DISASTERS: FACILITATING RESILIENCE IN HIGH RISK PROFESSIONS Douglas Paton, Simon Moss, John Violanti, Jezamine De Leon and Hana Morrissey CHAPTER 18—GOVERNANCE FOR RESILIENCE Ljubica Mamula-Seadon CHAPTER 19—RESILIENCE TO HEAT WAVES: A FRAME-WORK FOR RESEARCH, POLICY AND PRACTICE Kerstin K. Zander, Gertrud Hatvani-Kovacs and Stephen T. Garnett CHAPTER 20—ENHANCING RESILIENCE TO WILDFIRE DISASTERS: FROM THE “WAR AGAINST FIRE” TO ?“COEXIST WITH FIRE” 362 Fantina Tedim and Vittorio Leone CHAPTER 21—A WICKED PROBLEM: MAKING DRR AND CCA WORK FOR RESILIENCE Jane Rovins CHAPTER 22—DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND DISASTER RESILIENCE: PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES Douglas Paton? Index
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