Multi-Hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building

Dr. Indrajit Pal, an associate professor in the Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation, and Management program at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, brings over 21 years of expertise in disaster risk governance, hazard assessment, CBDRM, public health risk, and disaster resilience. With a distinguished background, he previously contributed to the Centre for Disaster Management at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, India. Dr. Pal holds a pivotal role as a Board member of the Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI), Japan, and serves as a Visiting Professor at Keio University. His advisory contributions extend to Disaster Risk Reduction for the Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia (RIMES). Dr. Pal is a prolific author and editor, with a portfolio of 15 books and over 180 peer-reviewed papers and chapters. Leading impactful projects in the Asia-Pacific region, his research focuses on risk characterization in Asian Delta communities and climate resilience in Lao PDR. Dr. Rajib Shaw is a professor at Keio University's Graduate School of Media and Governance. He is also the Chairperson of SEEDS Asia and CWS Japan, two Japanese NGOs, and a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan. He was previously the Executive Director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) and a Kyoto University Professor. Disaster governance, community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education are all areas of interest for him. Professor Shaw is the Chair of the UN Science Technology Advisory Group for Disaster Risk Reduction (STAG) and the Co-Chair of the Asia Science Technology Academic Advisory Group (ASTAAG). He's also the CLA (Coordinating Lead Author) for the IPCC's 6th Assessment Report's Asia chapter. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal "Progress in Disaster Science" published by Elsevier, as well as the series editor of a Springer book series on disaster risk reduction. Prof. Shaw has over 45 books to his credit, as well as over 300 scholarly papers and book chapters.

• 1. An overview of vulnerability and resilience building in the Asia Pacific region2. Opportunities and challenges farmers face when Using indigenous knowledge to adapt to climate change in sustainable development in Mekong Delta, Vietnam (A case study in An Giang province)3. Development of a disaster and climate risk ATLAS in Bangladesh: Methodology for quantification of risk4. Sustainability assessment methodology for residential building in urban area - a case study5. Comparison of the vulnerability assessment of step-back configuration and set-back configuration structures on hill slopes6. A proposal for disaster risk management in the local level: lesson learned from earthquake prone area in Sengon village, Central Java, Indonesia7. Community resilience for disaster risk reduction by engaging local governance in Bihar (India)8. A working strategy for preparedness in Kerala schools: a suggestive study9. Integrating indigenous knowledge with science to suitably tackle disasters due to climate and environmental change: an overview of the progress and way forward10. Target E of Sendai Framework: current status and how to complete by 2022 end11. Predict the critical load of rectangular concrete-filled steel tube columns with ultra high strength concrete with software ANSYS12. Time-dependent reliability system of the continuous steel beam I-shapes with corrosion damage13. An extensive study on damage assessment of earthquake-affected buildings in Nepal14. Modeling soil erosion: Samanalawewa watershed, Sri Lanka15. Efficient earthquake intensity measures for probabilistic seismic demand models of skewed RC bridges16. Time-frequency analysis of ground motions from the 1999 Chamoli earthquake17. Mainstreaming disaster risk management technical and vocational education and training (DRM-TVET) program in higher education institutions: flexible ladderized capacity building model amid COVID-1918. Extreme flood analysis for Lower Indus Basin, Pakistan study under disaster risk reduction19. Change in cropping pattern and soil health in relation to climate change and salinity in coastal Bangladesh20. Strengthening capacity for disaster resilience of rural women in Fiji21. Foundation of indigenous knowledge theory for disaster risk reduction22. Critical infrastructure resilience in Eastern Economic Corridor of Thailand - a review