Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction

Juha I. Uitto Juha Uitto is the Director, Independent Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). His career has combined positions in international organizations and academia, including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations University (UNU), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Nordic Africa Institute. He is Visiting Professor at Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey, and has held short-term visiting positions at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, in 2005 and 2013. His research interests pertain to assessing and measuring the effects and impact of environmental interventions, and he has written extensively on topics related to environment-poverty linkages, natural resources management, environmental hazards, and evaluation. A geographer by training, he holds a PhD from the University of Lund and MSc from Helsinki University. Rajib Shaw Rajib Shaw is a Professorin the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies of Kyoto University, Japan. He worked closely with the local communities, NGOs, governments and international organization, including United Nations, especially in the Asian countries.  He is currently the Chair of the United Nations Asia Regional Task Force for Urban Risk Reduction, and the President of Asian University Network of Environment and Disaster Management (AUEDM). His research interests are: community based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education. He has published several books in the field of disaster and environmental management. He is also the Chief Editor of Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management.  

Introduction.- Sustainable Development, Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Management.- Risk and Vulnerability.- Building Urban Climate Resilience: Experiences from Vulnerability Assessment in Hue city, Viet Nam Resilience, Transition and Transformation.- Climate Change Risks – Methodological Framework and Case Study of Damages from Extreme Events in Cambodia.- Food security, climate change adaptation and disaster risk.- Human Health as Pre-conditioning Nutrition towards Achieving Sustainable Development.- Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction: Experiences, Challenges and Opportunities in the Post-2015 Development Agenda.- Access, equity and hazards: Highlighting a socially just and ecologically resilient perspective on water resources.- Sustainable Development and Coastal Disasters: Linking Policies to Practices.- Climate Change and Integrated Approach to Water Resource Management in the Murray-Darling Basin.- Vulnerability and Sustainable Development: Issues and Challenges fromthe Philippines’ Agricultural and Water Sectors.- Community-based approaches to sustainable development and disaster risk reduction.- Education, Training and Capacity Building for Sustainable Development.- Missing the Forests for the Trees? Assessing the Use of Impact Evaluations in Forestry Programmes.- Integration of Indigenous Knowledge into Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) Policies for Sustainable Development: The Case Of The Agta In Casiguran, Philippines.- Usefulness of a Sustainability Literacy Test.- Sustainable development and disaster risk reduction in post-2015.