Risk Mitigation, Vulnerability Management and Resilience under Disasters

• Other Authors: Sapountzaki, Kalliopi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; History of engineering & technology; disaster risk; vulnerability; monitoring; risk assessment; disaster management; UN-ISDR; SDGs; telluric risks; climate-related risks; risk awareness; risk management; volcanic islands; alternative action organizations; environmental activism; solidarity; Europe; crisis; sustainability; alternative consumerism; alternative lifestyles; action organization analysis; exposure; systemic vulnerability; risk-sensitive spatial development; multi-risk; seismic crisis; seismic emergency information and communication; uncertainty; risk perception; governance culture; Greece; Japan; seismic risk management; disaster risk awareness; migrants; disaster preparedness; earthquake; flood; Italy; Turkey; Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis; AHP; GIS; flood-hazard; Megalo Rema; Eastern Attica; elderly; pandemic; corpus-assisted discourse studies; media coverage; compromise; disaster risk reduction (DRR); motor of change; setting priorities; strategic focus; teleology; fire prevention; fire statistics; forest fires; public participation; n/a
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The Special Issue (SI) discusses the topic of Disaster Risk Management and its cornerstones: vulnerability reduction and resilience building. The focus of the SI is the impact of risk information, communication and representation, risk knowledge as related to science and practice, risk perception an...