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The chapter considers the current disasters as consequences of imperfect information. The chapter analyzes the current models of information generation and dissemination and propose an alternative that considers people at risk as both source and sink of information that helps in designing better solutions. The chapter heavily derives experiences...

This chapter was aimed at development professionals and disaster risk reduction professionals who wish to integrate climate change considerations in their local level planning and practices. The chapter explores the linkages between development and disaster risks and discusses how climate change has brought additional risks to developing countries...

Remarks: Including RISPO I Background Paper "Facilitating Protected Area Management Using Community-based Tourism" as a reprint (http://www.iges.or.jp/APEIS/RISPO/spo/pdf/overall/3.4.1_cbt.pdf)

This chapter is an attempt to link the disaster risk reduction and decision making under uncertainty. It is aimed at the disaster risk reduction personnel who are beginning to understand the linkages with climate change. Since this chapter is meant for a book that largely deals with disaster risk reduction and not climate change, the chapter starts...

Vol. 3: People and Forest-Policy and Local Reality in Southeast Asia, the Russian Far East, and Japan Inoue, M., Isozaki, H. (Eds.), 2004. 114,95 € http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=606 Vol. 2: Environment in the 21st Century and New Development Patterns Matsushita, K. (Ed.), 2001. 82,95 € http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules...

This report is compiled on results of research implemented during the first year of the Project, “Developing a Forest Conservation Strategy for the Russian Far East,” which is being undertaken by on the basis of the agreement between the Economic Research Institute of the Far Eastern Division of Russian Academy of Sciences and the Forest...

The focus of the Urban Environmental Management Project of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies in 2005-2007 was on the opportunities and barriers for integration of global environmental concerns into local planning and management, taking greenhouse gas emission reduction as a distant but ultimate goal. Accordingly, the project builds...