Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
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 ...
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
April 28, 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 ...
Disaster Resilience in South Asia: Tackling the Odds in the Sub-Continental Fringes
1st Edition
By Iftekhar Ahmed, Kim Maund, Thayaparan Gajendran
December 13, 2021
This book considers the challenges of building disaster resilience in South Asia – a region that frequently experiences some of the most severe and devastating impacts of disasters. Despite significant work to assist affected communities, many smaller South Asian countries remain particularly ...
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 ...
The Anthropology of Disasters in Latin America: State of the Art
1st Edition
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By Virginia García-Acosta
August 02, 2021
This book offers anthropological insights into disasters in Latin America. It fills a gap in the literature by bringing together national and regional perspectives in the study of disasters.The book essentially explores the emergence and development of anthropological studies of disasters. It ...
Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gender Ramifications
1st Edition
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By Catarina Kinnvall, Helle Rydstrom
March 31, 2021
This book focuses on the challenges of living with climate disasters, in addition to the existing gender inequalities that prevail and define social, economic and political conditions.Social inequalities have consequences for the everyday lives of women and girls where power relations, ...
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 ...