Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development

Science and Technology for Multi-hazard Vulnerability, Climate Change and Resilience Building.- Vulnerability mapping of residential buildings with respect to cyclonic wind in Mauritius using Remote Sensing and QGIS.- Multi-hazard impact and vulnerability analysis in building city infrastructure resilience.- A Review of Flood Hazard and Risk Management Strategies, past, present, and future challenges in the South Asian Region, particularly in Sri Lanka.- Assessing risk and adaptation options across building types and neighbourhoods in the cities and urbanising regions of Vietnam.- Challenges in Addressing Green Growth in Malaysian Cities.- A Risk Based Approach of Assessing Cyclone Shelter Locational Needs in the Coastal Region of Bangladesh.- Climate change impacts in India: Potential of Nature Based Solutions (NBSs) for adaptation and mitigation.- A review of Climate Change Impact on the Built Environment in coastal regions.- Disaster Management Practices Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic: Emergency  Response of Merapi Volcano Eruption.- Post-Disaster Recovery for Building Resilience: Bangladesh Perspective.- A Framework of Risk Profile in Public Healthcare System Development: A Literature Review.- Enhancing effectiveness of occupational health and safety of garments and textile industry workers in Chittagong, Bangladesh.- Community Perception of Flood Induced Health Risk in Sudan, a case study of Sharq El-Nile area.

Indrajit Pal is an associate professor in the Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management (DPMM) Academic program, in Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. Dr. Pal. is Deputy Director of the Research Center "South- and South East Asia Multi-disciplinary Applied Research Network on Transforming Societies of Global South (SMARTS)" in AIT. He has more than 19 years of experience in research, teaching, training, advocacy, and consultancy primarily focused on disaster risk governance, incident command system, hazard and risk assessment, CBDRM, public health risk, disaster resilience, and DRR Education. He served as a faculty member at Centre for Disaster Management at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, India and a former member of the Board of Directors for the Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI), Japan. Dr. Pal is supervising a number of doctoral and master's degree researchers across Asia and Africa in the field of disasterrisk management, resilience and risk governance. Dr. Pal has published 12 books and over 100 academic papers and book chapters. Some of his ongoing research includes disaster resilience and sustainable development education in Asia, risk characterization in Asian Delta communities in the "Living Deltas HUB" of the UK Research and Innovation-Global Challenges Research Fund (UKRI-GCRF) project and the "Climate Resilient Infrastructure for Social Transformation and Adaptation (CRISTA)"- Climate Innovation Challenge, supported by World Bank, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC).  
Rajib Shaw is a professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance in Keio University, Japan. He is also Senior Fellow of Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan and Chairperson of SEEDS Asia and CWS, Japan, two Japanese NGOs. He is also the co-founder of a Delhi (India)-based social entrepreneur startup Resilience Innovation