Climate-Induced Disasters in the Asia-Pacific Region: Response, Recovery, Adaptation

Climate-induced disasters pose a significant threat to peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region. This book explores local response, recovery, and adaptation strategies, with a focus on the perspectives and knowledge of affected individuals and communities. The region is highly disaster-prone, with climate-related hazards causing widespread damage and displacement. The cost of response and recovery falls disproportionately on the poorest and most marginalized communities.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 240 pages
\n Publication date: 09 November 2020
\n Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
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Climate-induced disasters pose a significant threat to peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region. This volume, through case studies from Cambodia, Fiji, Solomon Islands, and Samoa, explores local response, recovery, and adaptation strategies, incorporating the perspectives and knowledge of affected individuals and communities.

Asia-Pacific is the world's most disaster-prone region, accounting for approximately half of the climate-related displacements of 19 million people globally in 2017. Climate-related, fast-onset hazards, such as floods, cyclones, and typhoons, have claimed numerous lives, displaced a significant number of people, and caused widespread damage over the past two decades. The cost of responding to and recovering from climate-induced disasters disproportionately falls on the poorest and most marginalized communities within Asia-Pacific countries.

This book presents richly detailed qualitative research from diverse contexts across the Asia-Pacific region, contributing to scholarship on community resilience and adaptation to climate-related hazards.

\n Weight: 472g\n
Dimension: 159 x 238 x 20 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781839099878\n \n