Ecosystem-Based Disaster and Climate Resilience

This book provides an introduction to the critical role of ecosystem-based disaster risk resilience (Eco-DRR) for building community resilience to multiple environmental risks such as rising heat, water stress, and pollution. Blue-green infrastructure (BGI) is an Eco-DRR tool that is an under-explored paradigm and can respond as one common strategy to targets set by the Sustainable Development Goals (UNDP), Climate Agreements (UNEP), the Sendai Framework (UNISDR), and the New Urban Agenda (UNCHS). Highlighted here in a systematic way is the importance of blue-green infrastructures in resilience building. The purpose is to introduce readers to the challenging context of development and opportunity creation for Eco-DRR. The roles of policy, scientific research, and implementation are presented cohesively. An attractive proposition of the book is a collection of case studies from different parts of the world where integration of BGI is experimented with at various levels of success. It envisages that shared tacit experiences from the realm of practice will further strengthen explicit knowledge. The focus in this book is on need and context building, policy and science (investigation, analysis, and design), case studies, and a road map for the future in four successive parts. Each part is self-sufficient yet linked to its predecessor, successor, or both, as the case may be.

Auteur
Mahua Mukherjee is a professor in the Department of Architecture and Planning at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee), India. She was Head, Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management in IIT Roorkee. She has worked in the field of sustainable development, urbanising habitat, urban climate, and risk resilience with an inclusive approach. Her research expertise involves investigation of urban environmental risks including heat islands and water stress, and solution-centric scenario generation using the blue-green infrastructure. She is involved with India's seismic resilience mission for habitat; she has contributed to the SAARC Disaster Mitigation and Management Centre and has organised training sessions, conferences, and edited volumes. She is a Fulbright Fellow and was Visiting Faculty at Pennsylvania State University, USA, and the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan. Prof. Mukherjee is engaged with young scholars and has organised resilience- and sustainability-related competitions. Currently, she is UNDRR-APSTAG Board Member and Secretary-General to the South Asia Alliance for Disaster Research Institutes (SAADRI).
Rajib Shaw is a professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance in Keio University, Japan. He is also Senior Fellow of the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan and Chairperson of the Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS) Asia and the Church World Service (CWS) Japan, two Japanese NGOs. Earlier, he was the executive director of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) and was a professor at Kyoto University. His expertise includes disaster governance, community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education. Professor Shaw is the chair of the United Nations Science Technology Advisory Group (STAG) for disaster risk reduction and the co-chair of the Asia Science Technology Academic Advisory Group (ASTAAG). He is also the coordinating lead author for the Asia chapter of IPCC's 6th Assessment Report. He is the editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal Progress in Disaster Science and the series editor of the Springer book series on disaster risk reduction. Prof. Shaw has published 51 books and over 300 academic papers and book chapters.

Contenu

Chapter 1. Uncertainties in Urbanizing World and Nature-based resilience building

Chapter 2. Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in the Hindu Kush Himalayas: Status, progress and challenges

Chapter 3. Evaluation of Ecosystem based approaches for disaster and climate risk resilience and policy perspectives in Pakistan

Chapter 4. Ecosystem-based approaches and policy perspectives in Nepal

Chapter 5. Ecosystem-based approaches and policy perspective from India

Chapter 6. Ecosystem-based approaches and policy perspectives: Towards integrated blue-green solutions in Vietnam

Chapter 7. Turning blue, green and gray: opportunities for blue-green infrastructure in the Philippines

Chapter 8. Making resilience a reality: The contribution of Peri-urban ecosystem services (BGI) to Urban resilience

Chapter 9. Innovations to Reduce Disaster Risks of Water Challenges

Chapter 10. Future heat risk in South Asia and the need for ecosystem mitigation

Chapter 11. Urban Risk Assessment Tools and Techniques for Ecosystem-based Solutions, India

Chapter 12. Scaling-up Nature based Solutions for mainstreaming urban resilience in Indian cities

Chapter 13. Incorporation of BIM based modeling in sustainable development of green building from stakeholders' perspective

Chapter 14. Planning for Climate Change Adaptation: Comprehensive Approach for Smart Urban Areas Management

Chapter 15. Path towards sustainable water management: A case study of Shimla, India

Chapter 16. Application of Remote Sensing Image in ECO-DRR for Dehradun City

Chapter 17. Ecosystem-based approaches for water stress management- lessons from Nagpur Metropolitan Area, India

Chapter 18. Challenges in decision-making for building resilience to climate risks

Chapter 19: A Greener alternative: The Sri Lankan experience of Eco-DRR

Chapter 20. the Watarase retarding basina historical example of ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction in Japan

Chapter 21: Self-efficacy for EbA and human health in a post-disaster recovery phase

Chapter 22: Freshwater biomonitoring: an ecosystem-based approach (EbA) for building climate resilience communities in Fiji

Chapter 23: Forward Looking Lens to Mainstream Blue-Green Infrastructure