Disaster Risks Research and Assessment to Promote Risk Reduction and Management

• Main Authors: Altan, Orhan, Alcántara-Ayala, Irasema, Baker, Daniel N, Briceño, Salvano, Cutter, Susan L, Gupta, Harsh, Holloway, Ailsa, Ismail-Zadeh, Alik, Jiménez Díaz, Virginia, Johnston, David, McBean, Gordon A, Ogawa, Yujiro, Paton, Douglas, Porio, Emma E, Silbereisen, Rainer, Takeuchi, Kuniyoshi, Valsecchi, Giovanni B, Vogel, Coleen, Wu, Guoxiong, Zhai, Panmao
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2015
• Subjects: Emergency and Disaster Management; Sociology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/sa-faculty-pubs/51; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050&context=sa-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Natural hazard events lead to disasters when the events interact with exposed and vulnerable physical and social systems. Despite significant progress in scientific understanding of physical phenomena leading to natural hazards as well as of vulnerability and exposure, disaster losses due to natural...