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No full text京都大学0048新制・課程博士博士(地球環境学)甲第13254号地環博第20号新制||地環||4(附属図書館)UT51-2007-H527京都大学大学院地球環境学舎地球環境学専攻(主査)教授 小林 正美, 助教授 SHAW Rajib Kumar, 教授 嘉門 雅史学位規則第4条第1項該当Doctor of Global Environmental StudiesKyoto UniversityDA
Adaptation Communication of Indigenous and Local Knowledge: Can Community Radios Be Mobilized in the Hindu Kush Himalaya Region?
No full textOverview of Technology Innovation for Sustainable Healthcare and Disaster Management
No full textWhile on one hand there has been tremendous progress in new technologies, and social media over the past several years, application of these technologies for innovation in disaster management is still a challenge. There are immense scopes of making progress in technological innovation for promoting sustainable healthcare and disaster management. This book provides an overview of how technology innovation has been evolving in the management of different types of disasters, particularly those related to healthcare. Hence the book has been organized into three sections, each with five chapters. The first section provides examples of the role different types of technologies are playing in the management of disasters (natural and others). The second section discusses the complexities involved in making these technology solutions sustainable in terms of cost and efforts in different countries. Since most of the technology solutions are based on information technology (e.g., mobile phones, drones, blockchain, social media, etc.), the third and last section delves deeper into the information technology solutions
Climate change and coastal zone management in Indonesia: example of adaptation at Demak Coast, Java Island, Indonesia
No full text[Extract] In the past four decades, climate related hazards such as floods, droughts, storms, landslides, and wild fires have caused major loss of human lives and livelihoods, the destruction of economic and social infrastructures as well as environmental damages. In many parts of the world, the frequencies and intensities of these hazards tend to increase (Sivakumar, 2005). Floods and windstorms accounted for 70% of total disasters and the remaining 30% of the total disasters are accounted for by droughts, landslides, forest fires, heat waves, and others. Within the period of 2003-2005 alone, there were about 1429 disaster incidences in Indonesia. About 53.3% were hydro-meteorological disasters (Annon., 2006). Of this figure, floods occur most often (34%), followed by landslides at 16%. In the future, a changing climate brought about by global warming is expected to create new patterns of risk, and higher risks generally. Sea level rise combined with extreme swells will contribute to the increase of coastal flooding as well as the submersion of many small islands in the Indonesian Archipelago. The situation is worsened by land subsidence phenomena found in many places, such as in the northern part of Java Island, where vast urbanization takes place and construction of heavy infrastructures as well as groundwater subtraction cannot be avoided. The coastal communities are suffering from sea level rise that subsequently increases the coastal erosion and inundation (Safwan Hadi, 2008)
Epidemics and pandemics risk governance: a case of post-COVID-19 in the United Kingdom
No full textCOVID-19 made significant health, economic, and social impact across the world. The situation urgently needs to strengthen disaster risk reduction strategies to reduce risks and enhance resilience. Nevertheless, many instances have evidenced disaster risk governance–related issues. This study examined the United Kingdom's present disaster risk governance system since the country has been hit significantly by the pandemic. The study evaluates the risk governance system in the United Kingdom across the key elements of the International Risk Governance Framework. The study conducted a systematic literature review following a literature review protocol. Documents were selected from the Science Direct, Emerald, and Google Scholar databases. Across the framework elements, several challenges were found within the UK's pandemic risk governance system. The study highlights the strength of the well-developed legal and policy supported the country's risk governance system. Even though the study was conducted at the early stage of the pandemic, the early findings will benefit policymakers and practitioners shaping the pandemic risk governance system in the country for a resilient society
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
National perspectives of COVID-19: case of Sri Lanka
No full textCOVID-19 pandemic has given insights into the systemic risks of a hazard, demonstrating the potency of biological hazards to not only render one sector dysfunctional but also fail the entire system. The grave and devastating impacts of the current COVID-19 call for the need to assess the state of global and national preparedness for future pandemics. This chapter provides an outline of Sri Lanka's response to the COVID-19 pandemic while delving into the current status and gaps concerning preparedness for pandemics in the country. The analysis is aimed at providing key recommendations for policymakers to improve national-level preparedness for anticipated pandemic threats. This chapter has drawn on a review of secondary literature and primary data gathered through in-depth interviews conducted with key informants in the disaster management and public health sectors in the country. Findings show that while preparedness planning for biological hazards is predominantly a responsibility of the health sector in the country, there is a pressing need to strengthen such preparedness through a unified legal framework and system of governance that allow for the transfer of relevant expertise, infrastructure, and lessons learned from previous hazards contexts to situations of pandemics; the incorporation of pandemic preparedness into national-level DRR efforts and subnational-level DRR planning; intensifying national focus on building economic and social resilience; emulating a multisectoral approach, enhancing private sector participation, and establishing a national framework to foster preparedness for parallel hazards
A Conceptual Framework for Designing an Effective Community Resilience Management System
No full textThis chapter presents a conceptual framework for designing community resilience management system (CRMS). We review and discuss the current frameworks on community resilience from different disciplines. We then deep-dive into the data, information systems, and communication technology networks in community resilience which are important elements of community resilience but often neglected by the current community resilience frameworks. Following which, we conceptualize the CRMS with the data, infrastructure, rules and regulations, and stakeholders as interrelated key elements in improving community resilience that should be holistically viewed and improved. We explain how the CRMS should operate, inheriting concepts from operations management and systems analysis and design, and present the design requirements for CRMS. An implementation scenario of the CRMS in a temporary community of a large event during health pandemic is illustrated
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