Disaster management: an overview -- Earthquake risk management: problems and prospects -- Tsunami risk reduction -- Flood risk management -- Cyclone risk: mitigation and management -- Drought risk management -- Post-tsunami hazards along the Indian coast -- Building codes and land use planning: challenges of development and enforcement -- Social vulnerability: who draws the line? where and why? -- Macroeconomic management and sustainable development -- Environmental vulnerability and disaster risk reduction -- Climate change risk reduction: decision-making in uncertainty -- Financial management of disaster-realted economic losses -- Implementation technology for disaster reduction -- Disaster management for infrastructure -- Geospatial information in agricultural drought assessment and monitoring -- Multimedia technology in disaster risk management training -- Transferable indigenous knowledge in disaster reduction: the Japanese experience -- Education in disaster risk reduction -- Essentials of school disaster education: example from Kobe, Japan -- Community capacity and disaster resilience -- Community-based disaster recovery -- Community-based disaster management and social capital -- Designing resilience: building community capacity for action -- Disaster, environment and development: opportunities for integration in Asia-Pacific region -- Impact of disasters on poverty and deprivation -- Climate change adaptation and human health: linkages of climate, disaster and health issues in Vietnam -- Exposure, health hazards and environmental risk: study in Chennai, India.