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Contents List of figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . List of tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . List of boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . List of contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii xvii xix xxi Foreword by Margareta Wahlström .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxviii Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxx List of abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxii Part I: Why do ecosystems matter in disaster risk reduction? . . . . . 1 1 The relevance of ecosystems for disaster risk reduction . . . . . . . 3 Fabrice G. Renaud, Karen Sudmeier-Rieux and Marisol Estrella 2 Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR): An overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Marisol Estrella and Nina Saalismaa
x Contents Part II: Ecosystems and coastal disaster risk reduction . . . . . . . . . . 55 3 Investigating the performance of coastal ecosystems for hazard mitigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Sam S.L. Hettiarachchi, Saman P. Samarawickrama, Harindra J.S. Fernando, A. Harsha R. Ratnasooriya, N.A. Kithsiri Nandasena and Srimal Bandara 4 Bioshields: Mangrove ecosystems as resilient natural coastal defences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Carmen Lacambra, Daniel A. Friess, Tom Spencer and Iris Möller 5 Integrating the role of ecosystems in disaster risk and vulnerability assessments: Lessons from the Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Methodology Development Project (RiVAMP) in Negril, Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Pascal Peduzzi, Adonis Velegrakis, Marisol Estrella and Bruno Chatenoux 6 Increasing the resilience of human and natural communities to coastal hazards: Supporting decisions in New York and Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Michael W. Beck, Ben Gilmer, Zach Ferdaña, George T. Raber, Christine C. Shepard, Imen Meliane, Jeffrey D. Stone, Adam W. Whelchel, Mark Hoover and Sarah Newkirk 7 A coastal adaptation strategy for the City of Cape Town: An ecosystem-based management approach towards risk reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Darryl Colenbrander, Penny Price, Gregg Oelofse and Sakhile Tsotsobe 8 Lessons from local initiatives on ecosystem-based climate change work in Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Stavros Mavrogenis and Ilan Kelman Part III: Water resources management for disaster risk reduction. 219 9 Good flood, bad flood: Maintaining dynamic river basins for community resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Pieter van Eijk, Chris Baker, Romana Gaspirc and Ritesh Kumar
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