Book contents
- Sustainable Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives
- Sustainable Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Peer reviewers
- Editor’s note
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Environmental keystones: Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba
- Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba
- Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- SI prefixes
- Unit abbreviations
- Chemical formulae
- Part I Sustainable Development: Theories and Practices
- Part II Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities
- 17 Scientific responses in an era of global change
- 18 Government communication on transboundary haze: The nexus between public health and tourism
- 19 Biomass energy prospects: A promising fuel for sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific
- 20 Pathways to a more sustainable electricity sector in India
- 21 Gender equality and energy access: Barriers to maximizing development effectiveness in the SAARC region
- 22 The biosphere and the interactions between stratospheric ozone depletion and climate change
- 23 The political challenge of linking climate change and sustainable development policies: Risks and prospects
- 24 Social vulnerability to climate change in Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam
- 25 Sustainable development in Bangladesh: Bridging the SDGs and climate action
- 26 Sustainable development in Pakistan: Vulnerabilities and opportunities
- 27 Beyond protected areas: Biodiversity conservation and global change in Asia and the Pacific
- 28 Causes of land-use change and biodiversity loss in Monsoon Asia
- 29 Assessing linkages between land use and biodiversity: A case study from the Eastern Himalayas using low-cost, high-return survey technology
- 30 Where to invade next: Inaction on biological invasions threatens sustainability in a small island developing state of the tropical South Pacific
- 31 Did the Indian Ocean tsunami trigger a shift towards disaster risk reduction?
- 32 Cyclone Nargis and disaster risk management in Myanmar
- Index
- Endmatter
- References
31 - Did the Indian Ocean tsunami trigger a shift towards disaster risk reduction?
from Part II - Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities
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Book contents
- Sustainable Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives
- Sustainable Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Peer reviewers
- Editor’s note
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Environmental keystones: Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba
- Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba
- Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- SI prefixes
- Unit abbreviations
- Chemical formulae
- Part I Sustainable Development: Theories and Practices
- Part II Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities
- 17 Scientific responses in an era of global change
- 18 Government communication on transboundary haze: The nexus between public health and tourism
- 19 Biomass energy prospects: A promising fuel for sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific
- 20 Pathways to a more sustainable electricity sector in India
- 21 Gender equality and energy access: Barriers to maximizing development effectiveness in the SAARC region
- 22 The biosphere and the interactions between stratospheric ozone depletion and climate change
- 23 The political challenge of linking climate change and sustainable development policies: Risks and prospects
- 24 Social vulnerability to climate change in Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam
- 25 Sustainable development in Bangladesh: Bridging the SDGs and climate action
- 26 Sustainable development in Pakistan: Vulnerabilities and opportunities
- 27 Beyond protected areas: Biodiversity conservation and global change in Asia and the Pacific
- 28 Causes of land-use change and biodiversity loss in Monsoon Asia
- 29 Assessing linkages between land use and biodiversity: A case study from the Eastern Himalayas using low-cost, high-return survey technology
- 30 Where to invade next: Inaction on biological invasions threatens sustainability in a small island developing state of the tropical South Pacific
- 31 Did the Indian Ocean tsunami trigger a shift towards disaster risk reduction?
- 32 Cyclone Nargis and disaster risk management in Myanmar
- Index
- Endmatter
- References
Summary
The earthquake and tsunami disaster of 26 December 2004 presents many extremes: the devastation was without precedent for a disaster of this type, covering a large geographical area. The level of the response was also without precedent. Another unusual development was the rapid recognition that many lives could have been saved had disaster risk reduction been more aggressively carried out in the region prior to the disaster. This chapter argues that this recognition provided a key opportunity to build more systematically on existing humanitarian, environment, and development commitments and helped develop more systematic disaster risk reduction capabilities in the region and the rest of the world.
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