Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
Disasters and Life in Anticipation of Slow Calamity: Perspectives from the Colombian Andes
1st Edition
By Reidar Staupe-Delgado
May 31, 2023
The book provides insights into community narratives concerning life in the face of creeping calamities through a case study from the Colombian Andes. It sets out to make sense of the lived experience of disasters that are slowly unfolding as well disasters that have not yet occurred. This book ...
Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity on Islands: History and Contemporary Perspectives from the Azores
1st Edition
By David Chester, Angus Duncan, Rui Coutinho, Nicolau Wallenstein
May 31, 2023
This volume examines the impact of and responses to historic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the Azores. Study is placed in the contexts of: the history and geography of this fascinating archipelago; progress being made in predicting future events and policies of disaster risk reduction. ...
The Invention of Disaster: Power and Knowledge in Discourses on Hazard and Vulnerability
1st Edition
By JC Gaillard
January 09, 2023
This theoretical contribution argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster scholarship has allowed normative policies and practices of disaster risk reduction to be imposed all over the world. It takes a postcolonial approach to unpack why scholars claim that disasters are social ...
Gender-Based Violence and Layered Disasters: Place, Culture and Survival
1st Edition
By Nahid Rezwana, Rachel Pain
December 30, 2022
This book investigates the widespread and persistent relationship between disasters and gender-based violence, drawing on new research with victim-survivors to show how the two forms of harm constitute ‘layered disasters’ in particular places, intensifying and reproducing one another. The evidence...
Why Vulnerability Still Matters: The Politics of Disaster Risk Creation
1st Edition
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By Greg Bankoff, Dorothea Hilhorst
May 06, 2022
We think vulnerability still matters when considering how people are put at risk from hazards and this book shows why in a series of thematic chapters and case studies written by eminent disaster studies scholars that deal with the politics of disaster risk creation: precarity, conflict, and ...
Crisis and Emergency Management in the Arctic: Navigating Complex Environments
1st Edition
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By Natalia Andreassen, Odd Jarl Borch
April 29, 2022
This book sheds light on the management challenges of crisis and emergency response in an arctic environment. It explores how the complexity of the operational environment impacts on the risk of operations and addresses a need for tailor-made emergency response mechanisms. Through case studies of ...
Governance of Risk, Hazards and Disasters: Trends in Theory and Practice
1st Edition
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By Giuseppe Forino, Sara Bonati, Lina Maria Calandra
September 30, 2021
Growing debates around governance are taking place among academic, policy-making, and practice-based communities. In light of the increasing focus on governance, this book presents and discusses governance as a framework that is able to both conceptualize and contextualize risks and disasters as ...
Rebuilding Fukushima
1st Edition
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By Mitsuo Yamakawa, Daisaku Yamamoto
March 31, 2021
Five years after the one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, Fukushima now only occasionally headlines national and international media. However, the disaster is far from over, as evidenced by a hundred thousand people from Fukushima still in the state of evacuation, rising levels of ...
Climate Hazard Crises in Asian Societies and Environments
1st Edition
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By Troy Sternberg
June 07, 2019
Climate hazards are the world’s most widespread, deadliest and costliest natural disasters. Knowledge of climate hazard dynamics is critical since the impacts of climate change, population growth, development projects and migration affect both the impact and severity of disasters. Current global ...
Climate Change and Urban Settlements: A Spatial Perspective of Carbon Footprint and Beyond
1st Edition
By Mahendra Sethi
January 17, 2019
Climate change and urbanization are two of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, and their effects are converging in dangerous ways. Cities contribute significantly to global warming, and as the world further takes a rural-urban population tilt, the next few decades pose a ...
Understanding Climate Change through Gender Relations
1st Edition
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By Susan Buckingham, Virginie Le Masson
January 17, 2019
This book explains how gender, as a power relationship, influences climate change related strategies, and explores the additional pressures that climate change brings to uneven gender relations. It considers the ways in which men and women experience the impacts of these in different economic ...
Men, Masculinities and Disaster
1st Edition
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By Elaine Enarson, Bob Pease
July 24, 2018
In the examination of gender as a driving force in disasters, too little attention has been paid to how women’s or men’s disaster experiences relate to the wider context of gender inequality, or how gender-just practice can help prevent disasters or address climate change at a structural level. ...