This book provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to addressing geohazards, with topics such as social vulnerability reduction, risk prevention, institutional preparedness, and community resilience. It also introduces new technologies to study geohazards, which is important since geohazards have caused many casualties, economic losses, and damage to cultural heritage throughout human history. Despite this, the culture of risk prevention is not yet widespread, so Disaster Risk Reduction activities must focus on increasing capacities, strategies, and action plans for prevention and preparedness in local communities.

Introduces risk prevention and institutional preparedness Presents new technologies to study geohazards Contains information about communication and social perception

Inhalt

• Part I Geohazards and Disaster Prevention: Approaches and Case Studies. - 1. Social Vulnerability and Geohazards: Review and Implications. - 2. Representations of Catastrophe Victims in Journalistic Narration: L'Aquila Earthquake of 2009. - 3. Perception of the Self-Exposure to Geohazards in the Italian Coastal Population of the Adriatic Basin. - 4. Urban Transformation, Collective Memory, and Disaster Preparedness: A Case from Turkey. - 5. Perceptions and Practices of Disaster Governance in Countries with Long History of Centralized Administration: A Case Study of Balikesir Municipalities, Turkey. - 6. Reducing the Risk from Asbestos in the Built Environment During Natural Hazard Events. - Part II Climate Change Perspectives. - 7. Communicating Weather Risk in the Twenty-First Century: Approaches Using Video Games and Virtual Reality. - 8. Assessing Coastal Flood Impact on Buildings: A Climate Change Perspective from the Developing Nation. - 9. Coping with Disasters: What Place Names Can Tell Us About Anthropocene and Climate Change. - 10. Climate Change and the Rising Disaster Risk in Africa. - 11. Water and Geohazards in Lower Casamance: Risk Perception and Prevention Strategies of the Populations in the Baïla Marigot Basin (Casamance, Senegal). - 12. The Risk of Marine Erosion in Tunisian Beaches: A Retrospective Reading for a Prospective Vision. - 13. African Indigenous Understanding of Climate Change and Disaster Risk Nexus. - Part III Resilience and Disaster Preparedness. - 14. Building Resilience in Times of New Global Challenges: A Focus on Six Main Attributes. - 15. Community Resilience Through Recovery: Capacity Building and Sustainability. - 16. Community Resilience Through Local Action: AKAH's Winter Preparedness and Avalanche Readiness Programme. - 17. Civic Resilience: Botanical Gardens in North America, Birth, Development, and Environmental Awareness. - 18. Measuring Willingness to Pay for Community-Based Resilience Training in the Southeast USA. - 19. Where There Is Smoke: Normalizing Community Preparedness and Geohazard Resilience: A Wildfire Perspective. - 20. Istanbul Resilience Approach Against Earthquake. - Part IV Pandemic, Vulnerabilities and Ethics. - 21. The Covid-19 Protection Index (CPI) as a Way to Identify Vulnerabilities and Disparities Across Brazilian Territories. - 22. The Social Vulnerability Index: A Literature Review. - 23. Geoethics, Environmental Law and the Necessary Dialogue Between Knowledges.