Description
Book SynopsisThis book presents emerging perspectives on disaster resilience and human settlements in the larger context of the Anthropocene. The chapters explore urban and rural perspectives focusing on the current and emerging perspectives on disaster resilience through a holistic approach, involving scientists, humanists, planners, policymakers, and professionals in the global debate.
Table of ContentsPart 1
Introduction
1. Disaster Resilience and Human Settlements: Emerging Perspectives in the Anthropocene
Part 2
Flood Risk in Urban Areas: Disaster Resilience Assessment
2. Leaving nothing to chance: reducing flood risk by evaluating flood alert simulations in urban
Contexts
3. Urban growth and increasing flood impact in Palma De Mallorca: a loss of resilience
capacity?
4. Flood hazard analysis for disaster resilience assessment in urban areas: examples from the Adriatic coastal area of Central Italy
5. Addressing the Impacts of Inland Floods on Housing in Honiara, Solomon Islands
Part 3
Perceptions and Representations of Disasters and Climate Change in the Anthropocene
6. Disaster perception and education among adolescents: a geographical perspective in Palermo, Sicily
7. Social media in risk perception and disaster management: a geographical perspective
8. Environmental Hazards as Weapons: Histories, Geographies, Representations
9. Living on Mount Etna in the Anthropocene between risk and beauty: a field survey
10. Climate change perception: a case study in the secondary school in Calabria, Italy
11. Informal Settlements in Ghana: Adaptation through Disaster Risk Communication
Part 4
Narrations of Disasters and Climate Change Resilience in Urban and Rural areas
12. Resilient landscapes: how to contribute to a climate rebalancing by restoring landscape
13. Disaster preparedness for enhancing the resilience to volcanic risk impact in the Etna region
14. Disaster Resilience and Human Settlements in the Abruzzi region (Central Italy)
15. Revitalizing the wounded territory: the didactic geo-hiking's potential
16. Sense of belonging and response to climate change: how the relation of local populations
Part 5
Pandemic and Disaster Risk Reduction: for an Emergency Pedagogy
17. For an emergency pedagogy: the Covid-19 witness as a “cure” for Disaster Risk Reduction. A case study in Southern Italy
18. From Disasters to the Pandemic: A Study on the EU Solidarity Fund
19. Resilience and disability in the pandemic emergency. The role of education
Part 6
Disaster Resilience and Governance
20. Disaster resilience and the role of disaster risk governance: Nepal and Thailand
