Science and Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia: Potentials and Challenges

2017 | Natural World

Science and Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia provides both a local and a global perspective in implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Topics demonstrate the advancement of scientific research as it applies to early warning systems, including identifying risk as well as the strengthening of infrastructure for different types of hazards; then connecting these discoveries to relative science-policy interfaces in decision making. Through different major disasters, it has becomes clear that there needs to be a balance between hard and soft technology as well as physical, process and social solutions. This book walks through how this is successfully happening now in Asia, and how these applications apply globally and can be used by anyone who work includes disaster risk reduction directly, or in environmental impacts of disasters.

Rajib Shaw (Author)

Koichi Shiwaku (Author)

Takako Izumi (Author)