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Disaster risks and hazards = practice for resilience- case for Zimbabwe /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Disaster risks and hazards/ edited by Rosemary Kasimba, Innocent Chirisa.
Reminder of title:	practice for resilience- case for Zimbabwe /
other author:	Kasimba, Rosemary.
Published:	Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore : : 2025.,
Description:	xiii, 298 p. :ill. (chiefly color), digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Hazard mitigation - Zimbabwe. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-4577-0
ISBN:	9789819645770

Disaster risks and hazards = practice for resilience- case for Zimbabwe /
Disaster risks and hazardspractice for resilience- case for Zimbabwe /[electronic resource] :edited by Rosemary Kasimba, Innocent Chirisa. - Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :2025. - xiii, 298 p. :ill. (chiefly color), digital ;24 cm. - Advances in 21st century human settlements,2198-2554. - Advances in 21st century human settlements..

Chapter 1. Consilience for Resilience for Disaster Risks and Hazards: An Overview -- Chapter 2. Understanding Social Networks and Community Resilience to Pandemics in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 3. Community Based Resilience to Climate Change in Chimanimani District, Zimbabwe -- Chapter 4. Geo-Spatial Science Use for Disaster Risk Management -- Chapter 5. Linking and Mapping Resilience to Strategies for Management of Disasters and Risks in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 6. The Ubiquity of Politics and its effect on Disaster Resilience in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 7. Gender and Disaster Resilience -- Chapter 8. Cyclone Damage Assessment Using High Resolution Satellite Imagery, Drone Technology and GIS: Lessons Learnt -- Chapter 9. The Resilience of Child Protection Systems During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Perspectives of Social Work Practitioners in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 10. Zimbabwe's Disaster Preparedness, Readiness and Response: Juxtaposing the COVID-19 Pandemic to the 2019 Cyclone Idai -- Chapter 11. COVID-19 Insights on Geriatric Care Systems' Vulnerabilities and Utility -- Chapter 12. Harnessing Local Knowledge for Resilience Building: The Case Study of Lower Muzarabani -- Chapter 13. The Impact of Tropical Cyclones on Human Security: A Case of Mozambique and Zimbabwe (2000-2019) -- Chapter 14. Natural Resource Governance and Disaster Risk Management in Zimbabwe: Lessons from past experiences -- Chapter 15. Hurdles to Achievement of Climate Justice in Southern Africa and the Search for Possible Solutions -- Chapter 16. Nuancing Urban Informality in light of policy to contain COVID-19 in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 17. The Future of Managing Disasters and Risks in Zimbabwe And Beyond.

This book discusses disaster risks and hazards as well as measures to increase people's resilience. The 21st Century has experienced a number of disasters that resulted in hampering socio-economic development, the loss of lives and property, hence they are a threat to sustainable development. Disaster risk management efforts and practices have failed to arrest the underlying drivers of increased global risk. No country is immune to disaster risk; thus, resilience has become a critical component of disaster management. It provides an opportunity to confront the social-ecological foundations of disasters. However, it has been vaguely conceptualised, and lacks a concrete approach to operationalization. Some developing countries are gradually coming to realise that preparedness, hazard mapping, prediction, risk and vulnerability assessment and planning are critical for increasing resilience and reducing losses following disasters. A paradigm shift is required from reactionary to proactive measures in disaster management as the later focuses more on increasing the resilience of the community. Zimbabwe's disaster management policy of 1979 is in the process of review following Cyclone Idai in March 2019 and the Corona Virus 19 (COVID-19). Furthermore, the consequences of climate change disaster are being felt with across the world, particularly, developing countries, whose preparatory measures for such disasters are inadequate. Disasters have become inevitable and no country is every country is vulnerable to them. In the event of these disasters, the vulnerable people are at risk and are affected more as majority of them are not able to cope. In developed countries measures are in place to assist the vulnerable in the event that a disaster strikes. However, Zimbabwe, being a developing country is not able to deal with unpredictable disasters due to lack of resources, hence the need for it to adopt mitigatory and transformative measures to reduce the impact of any form of disasters.

ISBN: 9789819645770

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-96-4577-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1486737
Hazard mitigation
--Zimbabwe.

LC Class. No.: HV551.5.Z55

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