Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
Environmental Non-Migration: Rethinking Sustainable Solutions for Climate-Induced Challenges
1st Edition
By Bishawjit Mallick
September 04, 2025
This book challenges the dominant narrative of migration as the default response to climate change, introducing the concept of Environmental Non-Migration (ENM). It provides insights into why communities choose to remain in specific locations despite environmental risks and how staying can be an ...
A Time of Disastrous Anticipations: Essays on Life in the Shadow of Catastrophe
1st Edition
Edited
By Reidar Staupe, Monika Gabriela Bartoszewicz
June 11, 2025
This book explores the pervasive anticipation of catastrophe in contemporary society, examining how temporal expectations shape personal and collective experiences and influence our perspectives and responses. A Time of Disastrous Anticipations highlights the role of anticipation in shaping ...
Good Practices for Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage: Practices of ITC Participants
1st Edition
Edited
By Rohit Jigyasu, Dowon Kim, Lata Shakya
December 19, 2024
This book is a selection of case studies undertaken by cultural heritage and disaster risk management professionals across the world demonstrating good practices for disaster risk management of cultural heritage. The readers will learn about the practical application of various methodologies, tools...
Agency in Poverty and War: Consciousness in Rural Human Development
1st Edition
By Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon
November 07, 2024
This book examines how people's self-awareness is affected by both internal and external factors amid war and poverty. It explores how agency has influenced the inward human development of rural women who face triple disadvantages related to gender, ethnicity, and access to economic power. It ...
Disaster Response by Ceauşescu’s Communist Regime in Romania: The 1977 Earthquake
1st Edition
By Karin Steinbrueck
October 21, 2024
This book contains the first comprehensive history using extensive primary sources to trace the 1977 earthquake disaster response by the Ceauşescu communist regime, contextualizing its contribution to the public risk that remains in Romania's capital Bucharest. It traces a history of one ...
Local Adaptation to Climate Change in South India: Challenges and the Future in the Tsunami-hit Coastal Regions
1st Edition
By Devendraraj Madhanagopal
October 09, 2024
This book critically discusses the vulnerabilities and local adaptation actions of the traditional marine fishers of the tsunami-hit coastal regions of South India to climate change and risks, with an emphasis on their local institutions. Thereby, it offers a comprehensive account of the ways in ...
The Post-Earthquake City: Disaster and Recovery in Christchurch, New Zealand
1st Edition
By Paul Cloke, David Conradson, Eric Pawson, Harvey C. Perkins
August 26, 2024
This book critically assesses Christchurch, New Zealand as an evolving post-earthquake city. It examines the impact of the 2010–13 Canterbury earthquake sequence, employing a chronological structure to consider ‘damage and displacement’, ‘recovery and renewal’ and ‘the city in transition’. It ...
Religious Responses to Earthquake and Volcanic Eruption Disasters
1st Edition
By David Chester, Angus Duncan, John Duncan
July 26, 2024
This book argues that, although secular and religious perspectives on disasters have often conflicted, today there are grounds for believing that the world’s major faiths have much to contribute to the processes of post-disaster recovery and future disaster risk reduction (DRR). It seeks to ...
Empowerment and Social Justice in the Wake of Disasters: Occupy Sandy in Rockaway after Hurricane Sandy, USA
1st Edition
By Sara Bondesson
May 27, 2024
This book taps into discussions about social vulnerability, empowerment, and resistance in relation to disaster relief and recovery. It disentangles tensions and dilemmas within post-disaster empowerment, through a rich ethnographic narrative of the work of Occupy Sandy in Rockaway, New York City, ...
Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam
1st Edition
By Mitul Baruah
May 27, 2024
This book presents a fascinating, ethnographic account of the challenges faced by communities living in Majuli, India, one of the largest river islands in the world, which has experienced immense socio-environmental transformations over the years, processes that are emblematic of the Brahmaputra ...
Health, Wellbeing and Community Recovery in Fukushima
1st Edition
Edited
By Sudeepa Abeysinghe, Claire Leppold, Akihiko Ozaki, Alison Lloyd Williams
January 29, 2024
This book examines the issue of disaster recovery in relation to community wellbeing and resilience, exploring the social, political, demographic and environmental changes in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster. The contributors reflect on the Fukushima disaster of earthquake, tsunami and ...
Disaster Deaths: Trends, Causes and Determinants
1st Edition
By Bimal Kanti Paul
May 31, 2023
This book conducts a systematic inquiry into the tragic deaths caused by natural disasters at different geographic scales. It employs key disaster concepts and classification of disasters to understand the high mortality rates and the various factors associated with these deaths. Deaths are the ...