Strengthening resilience in post-disaster situations: stories, experience and lessons from South Asia
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Delhi [India] Academic Foundation 2011.
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Part 1 : Coastal threats and challenges -- Rehabilitating livelihoods in tsunami-affected coastal communities in Asia -- Ecosystem threats and impacts in coastal areas -- Coastal erosion and its management -- Tsunami impacts and coastal land use issues -- Coastal planning and regulatory issues : post-tsunami -- Trends in land and resource use and land tenure -- Management challenges and approaches for sustainable ICM -- Intergrated coastal zone planning -- Establishing resilient coastal ecosystems for sustainable livelihoods
Part 2 : Risk reduction : key to adaptation -- Reducing disaster risk : a challenge for development -- Linking poverty, vulnerability, and disaster risk -- The impact of climate change on the vulnerable -- Understanding adaptation and mitigation -- Demistifying terminologies and definitions : same terms, different meanings? -- A framework on addressing climate change adaptation and vulnerabilities -- Framework for disaster-resistant sustainable livelihoods -- Adaptation : the context for change -- Looking at climate change adaptation from various realms -- Assessing resilience and vulnerability : principles, strategies and actions -- Analytical and assessment tools and methods -- Participatory community risk assessment -- Integrating ecosystems management with DRR -- Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction -- Indicators for use in ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction -- Healthy ecosystems and their role in disaster risk reduction -- Adaptation to climate change -- Capitalising on similarities : bridging differences between CCA and DRR -- Disaster risk reduction and climate change framework : the Cordaid lens -- Enhancing coping mechanisms in resilience building -- Supporting local capacities : from jagon to impact
Part 3 : Building capacities : the path to community resilience -- Emergence of resilience -- Understanding resilience in coastal areas -- Towards creating a resilient community -- Learning to respond to disasters : community empowerment -- Community resilience : a social justice perspective -- Boosting community resilience -- Community resilience and community-based management -- Information and communications technology for disaster risk reduction -- Management of coastal resources through village level planning -- Development planning using spatial data -- Towards a better assesment framework : the case of Wanduruppa -- Building resiliant communities : lessons from Cordaid -- Community disaster resilience fund : early insights and recommendations -- Capacity building interventions : drawing lessons from the field -- A role for customised financial mechanisms -- Village information centres : harnessing the potential of technology -- Considerations for a village resource centre -- Transforming the value chains through business development approach -- Planning coastal revegetation programmes -- Role of coastal bioshield in strengthening the coastal resilience -- Non-mangrove bioshields in coastal areas
Part 4 : Risk reduction experiences from the field -- An introduction to the SRTAC Project -- Networking and partnerships in rural Sri Lanka -- Village development planning process in Sri Lanka -- Local participation in mangrove management -- Unleashing women power in Tamil Nadu -- Exposure visits : a tool for gender mainstreaming -- Community disaster resilience fund : learning form a pilot initiative -- Building bonds, breaking bondages in the Gulf of Mannar -- Insurance : investment towards security and resilience in Palakayatippa -- Community-manged microfinance : the case of Danavaipeta, Andhra Pradesh -- Community participation : the case of the Andaragasyaya Canal -- Revival of agriculture in Sorlagondi Village, Andhra Pradesh -- Transfering ownership to communities : flood mitigation in Ambalantota -- The importance of providing solutions that really work -- Collective management of resources in village development -- Reviving traditional paddy farming in Andaragasayaya -- Collective action for eco-shrimp farming in Sorlagondi -- Facilitation makes a world of difference : the Thalalla experience -- Applying market-systems approaches in Wanduruppa -- Integrated mangrove and fishery farming : a model for saline transformed lands -- Raising mangrove nurseries in Muthuregunathapuram Village -- Viability of bioshield development in Sri Lanka -- Participatory GIS for village development -- Village resource centres : the spokes of the information village -- Village resource and knowledge centre as hubs for disaster preparedness -- Livelihood avenues : reducing economic vulnerabilities -- Customised process-oriented facilitation of project monitoring
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (799 p.)
ISBN:1552505359
9781552505359

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