Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience

Muneta Yokomatsu is an associate professor of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, and a guest research scholar with the Risk and Resilience (RISK) program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). He is a treasurer of the Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM) Society, and an editor in chief of the Journal of Natural Disaster Science (JNDS).  Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler is a senior research scholar with the Risk and Resilience (RISK) program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and leader of the Risk Analysis and Modeling Group. A member of the Board of Directors of the Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM) Society and the Board of Directors of the Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI), he is also a lecturer at the University of Vienna, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and the Graduate School at the Institute for Advanced Study in Pavia.

Introduction.- Recognition of Earthquake-Prone Areas for Seismic Hazard Evaluation.- Resilience to volcano- and landslide-related hazards.- Towards Natech Resilient Industries.- Resilience and electricity.- Disaster risk and a household’s dynamic asset-formation behavior: Jump control model of household.- Exploring drought resilience through a drought risk management lens in Austria.- Social Psychological Perspectives on Preparedness Theory and Practice: Facilitating Resilience.- Measuring and building community disaster resilience: essential for achieving Sendai.- Building the Evidence Base to Achieve the Sendai Framework for DRR Goals.- Fiscal resilience and building back better: A global analysis for disaster risk reduction strategies.- Discussion and Outlook for the Future.