Climate Change And Earthquake Exposure In Asia And The Pacific

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789292699765

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Climate Change and Earthquake Exposure in Asia and the Pacific by Asian Development Bank Pdf

To promote smoother flows of goods across borders while reducing trade costs, this report explores an integrated approach to facilitating trade and transport across Asia and the Pacific, for better engagement in value chains. The report examines the current state of trade and transport facilitation, analyzes gaps in the available guidance, and provides strategic recommendations. It includes a framework for the assessment of trade readiness at national and subnational levels and illustrates its implementation through case studies of Cambodia and Thailand. The report aims to help governments boost the region's recovery from COVID-19 disruption by making cross-border trading and transport arrangements more efficient and more sustainable, inclusive, and equitable.

Author : Matthew Scott,Albert Salamanca
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000223309

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Climate Change, Disasters, and Internal Displacement in Asia and the Pacific by Matthew Scott,Albert Salamanca Pdf

This book examines how states in eight countries across Asia and the Pacific address internal displacement in the context of disasters and climate change. The Asia and the Pacific region accounts for the majority of global disaster-related displacement, but the experience of the millions of individuals displaced differs according to gender, age, ethnicity, (dis)ability, caste, and so forth and is dependent on the legal, administrative, social, and economic structures and processes in place to support them. This book adopts a human rights-based approach, investigating the role of law and policy in preventing displacement, protecting people who are displaced, and engendering durable solutions across cases drawn from Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Nepal, Bangladesh, Vanuatu, and the Solomon Islands. The specific cases in the book also reflect critically on the term ‘displacement’ and the wider normative framework within which this phenomenon is conceptualised and addressed. The book will be of interest to students, researchers, and practitioners working at the intersection of human rights, human mobility, development, disaster risk reduction and management, and climate change adaptation.

Author : Andreas Neef,Natasha Pauli
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839099861

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Climate-Induced Disasters in the Asia-Pacific Region by Andreas Neef,Natasha Pauli Pdf

In this volume, contributors look at response, recovery and adaptation to climate-induced disasters, in Asia-Pacific - the world's most disaster-prone region. Chapters examine case studies from Cambodia, Fiji, Solomon Islands and Samoa.

Author : Charles W. Freeman,Michael J. Green
Publisher : CSIS
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780892066049

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Asia's Response to Climate Change and Natural Disasters by Charles W. Freeman,Michael J. Green Pdf

"A report of the CSIS Asian Regionalism Initiative, July 2010."

Author : Ian Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317644873

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Disaster Risk Management in Asia and the Pacific by Ian Davis Pdf

This book uses two international frameworks—the Millennium Development Goals and the Hyogo Framework for Action, a program focused on disaster risk management—to study the key trends in the region in terms of disaster incidence, sources of vulnerability and social and economic challenges. As both frameworks draw to a close, international debate is taking place during the period 2012–2015 on their current progress. This book seeks to help readers understand the process better. The chapters are written by eight independent internationally based authors. Collectively, they have extensive regional experience in the areas of disaster risk management and climate change as well as working in academia, research, consultancy, the UN and international agencies, government and the NGO sector. The analysis presented benefits from their varied backgrounds in medicine, architecture, economics, engineering, planning, social studies, development studies and political science. Throughout the book, relevant examples, drawn from the region, are included to ‘earth’ the project in the harsh realities of risk and disaster impact.

Author : Ezequiel Cabezon,Ms. Leni Hunter,Ms. Patrizia Tumbarello,Kazuaki Washimi,Mr. Yiqun Wu
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513577074

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Enhancing Macroeconomic Resilience to Natural Disasters and Climate Change in the Small States of the Pacific by Ezequiel Cabezon,Ms. Leni Hunter,Ms. Patrizia Tumbarello,Kazuaki Washimi,Mr. Yiqun Wu Pdf

Natural disasters and climate change are interrelated macro-critical issues affecting all Pacific small states to varying degrees. In addition to their devastating human costs, these events damage growth prospects and worsen countries’ fiscal positions. This is the first cross-country IMF study assessing the impact of natural disasters on growth in the Pacific islands as a group. A panel VAR analysis suggests that, for damage and losses equivalent to 1 percent of GDP, growth drops by 0.7 percentage point in the year of the disaster. We also find that, during 1980-2014, trend growth was 0.7 percentage point lower than it would have been without natural disasters. The paper also discusses a multi-pillar framework to enhance resilience to natural disasters at the national, regional, and multilateral levels and the importance of enhancing countries’ risk-management capacities. It highlights how this approach can provide a more strategic and less ad hoc framework for strengthening both ex ante and ex post resilience and what role the IMF can play.

Author : Juan M. Pulhin,Makoto Inoue,Rajib Shaw
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789811588525

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Climate Change, Disaster Risks, and Human Security by Juan M. Pulhin,Makoto Inoue,Rajib Shaw Pdf

This book explores how climate change and disaster risks threaten human security in Asia. Climate change and disaster risks have emerged as major human security challenges in the twenty-first century, and are an imminent “threat multiplier” with the potential to harm the vital core of human life and curtail people’s freedom and ability to live with dignity. Climate change and disaster risks undermine the security of individuals, communities, nations, and the world, considering the increasing trend in the frequency and magnitude of hydro-meteorological disasters and the projections on their future adverse impacts. Despite recent advances in the literature, there is still a major gap in understanding the relationship and linkages between climate change, disaster risks, and human security, particularly as gleaned from the Asian experience. Asia is the world’s most vulnerable region in terms of the quantity and magnitude of impacts from various forms of disaster. At the same time, it has developed a number of innovative responses to address those risks, offering a wealth of experience. Exploring and capitalizing on the Asian perspective, this book provides valuable resource material for students, academics, researchers, policymakers, and development practitioners working in these areas.

Author : David Sanderson,Laura Bruce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367258455

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Urbanisation at Risk in the Pacific and Asia by David Sanderson,Laura Bruce Pdf

This book presents practical approaches for tackling the threats from climate change and disasters to urban growth in Pacific island countries and Asian nations. With chapters written by leading scholars and practitioners, Urbanisation at Risk presents research and case studies from island countries across the Pacific, Cambodia, Nepal and the Philippines. The book explores and presents the theory, policy and practice of how governments, civil society, aid organisations and people themselves prepare for, withstand and recover better from urban disasters including windstorms, floods, earthquakes and fires, and the effects of climate change. This book is written for urban policy makers, researchers, humanitarian aid and development workers, and anyone interested in urbanisation, participatory approaches, disasters, resilience and climate change adaptation.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9292611186

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Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Disasters in the Pacific by Asian Development Bank Pdf

Pacific island countries need to build their fiscal and economic resilience to climate change and natural disasters as these have lasting consequences on their livelihoods, economies, and fiscal balances. Climate change and natural disasters can have lasting consequences on livelihoods, economies, and fiscal balances-spanning immediate reconstruction costs and fiscal shocks to long-term halts in tourism and agriculture economies. Globally, the most exposed to these impacts are the Pacific island countries. The Asian Development Bank is working closely with its Pacific developing member countries to prepare for and respond to the effects of climate change and natural hazards. This publication examines the often-overlooked dimension of resilience planning-how to brace economies for shocks caused by climate change and hazard events. It analyzes the exposure and vulnerability of Pacific economies to disaster events and outlines key resources for building fiscal and economic resilience.

Author : Iftekhar Ahmed,Kim Maund,Thayaparan Gajendran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780429766558

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Disaster Resilience in South Asia by Iftekhar Ahmed,Kim Maund,Thayaparan Gajendran Pdf

This book considers the challenges of building disaster resilience in South Asia – a region that frequently experiences some of the most severe and devastating impacts of disasters. Despite significant work to assist affected communities, many smaller South Asian countries remain particularly vulnerable in terms of fostering disaster resilience. Drawing on examples from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka, the book offers rich insights and narratives on disaster resilience policy and practice. It considers the possibilities for advancing community resilience and capacity building through an exploration of different aspects of governance and policy. Given the diversity of these countries and recent disasters, a variety of perspectives are considered: institutional and policy frameworks, risk management governance, recovery operations, building codes, and policy and media discourse. The book offers a collective understanding of practice, which can offer global lessons to a world increasingly beset by disasters and with uncertain environmental futures. This book will be a valuable resource for scholars, practitioners and students in the fields of disaster risk reduction and management, climate change adaptation, public policy and sustainable development.

Author : Susanna Price,Jane Singer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317561408

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Global Implications of Development, Disasters and Climate Change by Susanna Price,Jane Singer Pdf

Displacements in the Asia Pacific region are escalating. The region has for decades experienced more than half of the world’s natural disasters and, in recent years, a disproportionately high share of extreme weather-related disasters, which displaced 19 million people in 2013 alone. This volume offers an innovative and thought-provoking Asia-Pacific perspective on an intensifying global problem: the forced displacement of people from their land, homes, and livelihoods due to development, disasters and environmental change. This book draws together theoretical and multidisciplinary perspectives with diverse case studies from around the region – including China’s Three Gorges Reservoir, Japan’s Fukushima disaster, and the Pacific’s Banaba resettlement. Focusing on responses to displacement in the context of power asymmetries and questions of the public interest, the book highlights shared experiences of displacement, seeking new approaches and solutions that have potential global application. This book shows how displaced peoples respond to interlinked impacts that unravel their social fabric and productive bases, whether through sporadic protest, organised campaigns, empowered mobility or; even community-based negotiation of resettlement solutions. . The volume will be of great interest to researchers and postgraduate students in development studies, environmental and climate change studies, anthropology, sociology, human geography, international law and human rights.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Emergency management
ISBN : 9292541951

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The Rise of Natural Disasters in Asia and the Pacific by Anonim Pdf

Author : Helen James,Rajib Shaw,Vinod Sharma,Anna Lukasiewicz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811648113

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Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia Pacific by Helen James,Rajib Shaw,Vinod Sharma,Anna Lukasiewicz Pdf

This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from across the Asia Pacific region, covering four main sections: 1) Governance, 2) Education and Capacity, 3) Science, Technology, Risk Assessment and Communities, and 4) Recovery. The chapters address different dimensions of Sendai Framework of Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR), which are linked to Sustainable Development Goals, as well as Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789292701185

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Asia in the Global Transition to Net Zero by Asian Development Bank Pdf

This report explores what a global transition to net zero could mean for Asia and the Pacific under a range of climate policy scenarios and provides recommendations. Developing Asia faces a climate policy crossroads. The region is highly vulnerable to climate change, even as it is an increasing contributor to the global climate crisis. This report models emission pathways based on commitments and pledges under the Paris Agreement and compares them with more optimal routes to net zero. It examines required transformations in the energy sector and land use and assesses socioeconomic implications. The report looks at policy costs, climate benefits, air quality co-benefits, and labor market outcomes, and discusses policies for an efficient and equitable transition.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789292610135

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Natural Hazard Data by Asian Development Bank Pdf

Asia and the Pacific faces significant exposure to every major type of geophysical and weather-related hazard, and the countries in the region consistently rank among the most at risk from the human and economic impacts of natural hazards. The purpose of this practical guide is to provide Asian Development Bank (ADB) project officers with a basic understanding of natural hazards, the nature and purpose of hazard mapping and disaster risk assessments, and the availability and sources of related data and information in taking disaster risk into account in project design. It aso provides guidance to ADB staff on the identification and application of data for use in integrating disaster risk considerations in country partnership strategies and individual projects.