Risk and Resilience: Disaster, Climate Change and Development
Apr 2026 · Academic Press
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Risk and Resilience: Disaster, Climate Change and Development is an accessible and timely exploration of the first principles of disaster risk management and resilience. It delves into the complex interplay of natural hazards, biological disasters as well and environmental and geopolitical risks. It takes into account how natural hazards have increased in frequency and fury over the years, often influenced or catalyzed by anthropogenic factors. In the context of the loss of lives and livelihoods that these disasters have caused, the book lays the groundwork for mapping effective disasters risk governance strategies and climate change adaptations to minimize damage to infrastructures and reduce the burden on sustainable development. The initial chapters cover global risk management frameworks and their implication on both the national and local level before pivoting to the challenges of sustainable development and the recovery process after a disaster. Following that, it focuses on the use of climate change and adaptation practices and their link to disaster and developmental frameworks. The various dimensions of vulnerability including exposure are discussed and the concept of systemic risk for various natural disasters is laid out before going further into resilience, adaptation approaches and the theories of damage and loss pertaining to natural disasters. From there, the subsequent chapters delineate concepts related to coastal and delta system resilience, and the part played by policies, risk management planning and technology in risk reduction. This textbook is a key resource for upper-level undergraduate students studying disaster risk management and resilience in earth and environmental sciences, as well as researchers and professionals working in hazard and risk, disaster risk management, sustainable development and disaster governance. It contains study questions and case studies as additional resources for students and instructors.• Provides in-depth information on disaster risk management, climate change adaptation and development through risk and resilience• Examines the global risk landscape and its interplay with natural hazards and environmental risks• Presents strategies of climate change adaptation and risk governance to promote community resilience building• Explores ways to reduce the impact of disasters and accelerate the post-disaster recovery process
About the author
Dr. Indrajit Pal, an associate professor in the Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation, and Management program at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, brings over 21 years of expertise in disaster risk governance, hazard assessment, CBDRM, public health risk, and disaster resilience. With a distinguished background, he previously contributed to the Centre for Disaster Management at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, India. Dr. Pal holds a pivotal role as a Board member of the Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI), Japan, and serves as a Visiting Professor at Keio University. His advisory contributions extend to Disaster Risk Reduction for the Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia (RIMES). Dr. Pal is a prolific author and editor, with a portfolio of 15 books and over 180 peer-reviewed papers and chapters. Leading impactful projects in the Asia-Pacific region, his research focuses on risk characterization in Asian Delta communities and climate resilience in Lao PDR.Dr. Rajib Shaw is a professor at Keio University's Graduate School of Media and Governance. He is also the Chairperson of SEEDS Asia and CWS Japan, two Japanese NGOs, and a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan. He was previously the Executive Director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) and a Kyoto University Professor. Disaster governance, community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education are all areas of interest for him. Professor Shaw is the Chair of the UN Science Technology Advisory Group for Disaster Risk Reduction (STAG) and the Co-Chair of the Asia Science Technology Academic Advisory Group (ASTAAG). He's also the CLA (Coordinating Lead Author) for the IPCC's 6th Assessment Report's Asia chapter. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal "Progress in Disaster Science" published by Elsevier, as well as the series editor of a Springer book series on disaster risk reduction. Prof. Shaw has over 45 books to his credit, as well as over 300 scholarly papers and book chapters.
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