Disaster and Development: Examining Global Issues and Cases

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Disasters and Development: Investigating an Integrated Framework....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Disasters, Development, and Resilience: Exploring the Need for Comprehensive Vulnerability Management....Pages 19-37
Focusing Events in Disasters and Development....Pages 39-60
Linking Development to Disasters in Turkey: Moving Forward After the Marmara Earthquake....Pages 61-78
Disaster Management System in Azerbaijan: The Case of 2010 Kura River Flood....Pages 79-92
What Has Been Done? Louisiana After Katrina....Pages 93-110
Disaster Events and Policy Change in Florida....Pages 111-127
Beyond the Hyogo Framework: Disaster Management in the Republic of Lebanon....Pages 129-148
Disaster Policies and Emergency Management in Korea....Pages 149-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-166
Disasters, the Whole Community, and Development as Capacity Building....Pages 167-179
Finding Resilient Networks: Measuring Resilience in Post-Extreme Event Reconstruction Missions....Pages 181-199
The Role of Natural Functions in Shaping Community Resiliency to Floods....Pages 201-212
Hazard Mitigation, Economic Development and Resilience: A Comparative Analysis of Flood Control Policy and Practice in Germany, The Netherlands, and Great Britain....Pages 213-233
The Public Policy Dimension of Resilience in Natural Disaster Management: Sweden’s Gudrun and Per Storms....Pages 235-253
Recovery and Development: Perspectives from New Zealand and Australia....Pages 255-272
Disaster and Development in Ghana: Improving Disaster Resiliency at the Local Level....Pages 273-287
Evolving and Implementing a New Disaster Management Paradigm: The Case of the Philippines....Pages 289-313
Front Matter....Pages 315-315
The Role of Nonprofits and Civil Society in Post-disaster Recovery and Development....Pages 317-330
California Seismic Safety Commission: Multi-disciplinary Collaboration for Seismic Safety Mitigation....Pages 331-350
Multi-sector Partnerships in Disaster Housing Recovery: An Examination of Housing Development Approaches in India....Pages 351-369
Front Matter....Pages 315-315
Re-Development, Recovery and Mitigation After the 2010 Catastrophic Floods: The Pakistani Experience....Pages 371-389
Community-Based Recovery and Development in Tohoku, Japan....Pages 391-409
The Impact of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake on Disaster Policies and Development....Pages 411-425
Post-Wenchuan Earthquake Reconstruction and Development in China....Pages 427-445
Disasters and Development: Lessons and Implications from Global Cases and Issue....Pages 447-457
Back Matter....Pages 459-469