Land Use Management in Disaster Risk Reduction : Practice and Cases from a Global Perspective

• Main Author: Banba, Michiko.
• Other Authors: Shaw, Rajib.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo, Japan : Springer, ©2017.
• Series: Disaster risk reduction.
• Subjects: Land use.; Environmental management.; Natural disasters > Research.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9784431564423; 9784431564409
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 473 pages)

This book provides a wide range of studies on methods of assessing natural disaster risks and reducing those risks in the context of land use. A major benefit of the book is that it presents extensive research and practices from interdisciplinary perspectives through case studies of land use managem...