Coping with regional vulnerability : preventing and mitigating damages from environmental disasters /
Whether a natural event turns into a disaster depends on the severity of the hazard as well as the condition of the social sphere of its potential victims, i.e., vulnerability. We focus on regional vulnerability considering the fact that regional socioeconomic conditions determine the aspects of the...
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| Language: | English |
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Tokyo :
Springer,
2016
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| Series: | New frontiers in regional science: Asian perspectives ;
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; Contents; Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Part I: Overview and Context; Chapter 1: Sustainability and Human Well-Being; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 SustainabilitySustainability of What?; 1.3 SustainabilitySustainability for Whom?; 1.4 Attaining SustainabilitySustainability; 1.5 Regional VulnerabilityVulnerability; 1.6 Coping with Regional VulnerabilityVulnerability: The Scope of this Book; 1.6.1 Part II: Socioeconomic VulnerabilityVulnerability in a Regional Perspective; 1.6.2 Part III: Evaluation of Regional VulnerabilityVulnerability.
- 1.6.3 Part IV: Risk ManagementRisk Management of Regional VulnerabilityVulnerabilityReferences; Chapter 2: Water Resources Conflict Management: Social Risk Management; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Water Resources Conflicts Happen Everywhere; 2.2.1 Global Water Resources Problems Converge When Identifying Conflict; 2.2.2 Water Resources Conflicts in Japan; 2.3 What Is Sustainability?; 2.3.1 Conducting Reasonable and Fair Human Activities for Sustainability: A Paradigm Shift for Planning How to Manage Water Re ... ; 2.3.2 Social Inequality Is Not to Be Forgotten.
- 2.4 Meta-methodology for Water Resources Conflict Management2.4.1 Recognising the Relationship to the GES Environment; 2.4.2 The Circulation System for Mid- and Long-Term Water Resources Planning; 2.4.3 Adaptive Water Resources Planning Methodology for Social Conflict Management for Survivability; 2.5 Examples of Research on Conflict Management; 2.5.1 Creating a Process for Alternatives: A Hierarchical System and the Multi-objective Optimal Control Process; 2.5.1.1 The Concept of a Hierarchical System Based on the Decomposition Principle: Conflict Among Local Governments.
- 2.5.1.2 Multi-objective Optimal Water Resources Allocation Process: Conflict Between Allocated Water and Water Conservation2.5.2 Multiple Evaluation Process: Decision-Making System in the Conflict Between Water Resources Development and Environmenta ... ; 2.5.2.1 Background and Goals; 2.5.2.2 Systematic Process for Decision-Making; 2.5.3 The Process of Managing Conflicts: Social-Psychological Conflict Analysis and Evolutional Game Theory with GMCRII (Graph ... ; 2.5.3.1 Historical Nagara Observation Analysis; 2.5.3.2 International Conflict Management on the Ganges Between India and Bangladesh.
- 2.6 Concluding RemarksReferences; Part II: Socioeconomic Vulnerability in a Regional Perspective; Chapter 3: The Depopulation Problem; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Present State of Depopulated Areas and Development Policies in Japan; 3.2.1 The Present State of Depopulated Areas; 3.2.2 Countermeasures; 3.3 A Mechanism for Creation of Underpopulated Areas and Intergovernmental Grants; 3.3.1 A Simple Model for the Allocation of Population Between Regions; 3.3.2 The Role of Intergovernmental Grants; 3.4 A Case Study; 3.4.1 Structure of Revenues and Expenditures; 3.4.2 Utility Level.
