Water and Disasters

Chennat Gopalakrishnan is Professor of Natural Resource Economics at the University of Hawaii. He has published five books and approximately ninety journal articles and technical papers on current and emerging issues in natural resources economics and policy. Gopalakrishnan has directed a number of research projects dealing with water institutions, water markets and pricing, and water conservation and management. Gopalakrishnan is the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including Fellow of the American Water Resources Association. Norio Okada is Professor of Social Systems Engineering at Kyoto University, Japan. He has directed a number of research projects in the area of integrated disaster risk management, with special reference to Japan. Dr. Okada has chaired or served on numerous scientific advisory committees for international conferences on integrated disaster risk management.

• 1. Water and Disasters: Crafting Creative Solutions 2. Promoting Disaster Resilient Communities: The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004 and the Resulting Indian Ocean Tsunami 3. Floods as Catalysts for Policy Change: Historical Lessons from England and Wales 4. Quantified Analysis of the Probability of Flooding in the Thames Estuary Under Imaginable Worst-Case Sea Level Rise Scenarios 5. Advances in Decision Support Systems for Flood Disaster Management: Challenges and Opportunities 6. Integrated Risk Management of Flood Disasters in Metropolitan Areas of China 7. Rapid Economic Assessment of Flood-Control Failure Among the Rio Grande: A Case Study 8. Adoption of More Technically Efficient Irrigation Systems as a Drought Response 9. Rainfall Insurance: A Promising Tool for Drought Management