Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
Risk Communication and Community Resilience
1st Edition
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By Bandana Kar, David M. Cochran
December 18, 2020
Risk communication is crucial to building community resilience and reducing risk from extreme events.True community resilience involves accurate and timely dissemination of risk information to stakeholders. This book examines the policy and science of risk communication in the digital era. Themes ...
Climate, Environmental Hazards and Migration in Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Max Martin
September 30, 2020
The apocalyptic visions of climate change that are projected in the media often involve extreme weather events, disasters and mass migration of poor people. This book takes a critical look at this notion, drawing on research in Bangladesh, a country located at the heart of debates on climate change...
The Institutionalisation of Disaster Risk Reduction: South Africa and Neoliberal Governmentality
1st Edition
By Gideon van Riet
September 30, 2020
The past three decades have seen a global shift in disaster management from an event driven response to a ‘could-be’ risk management approach. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) has become entrenched as a dominant paradigm within the field of disaster management. More than a decade after adopting DRR ...
Climate Change Impacts and Women’s Livelihood: Vulnerability in Developing Countries
1st Edition
By Salim Momtaz, Muhammad Asaduzzaman
June 30, 2020
Very few studies have been conducted to explore the vulnerability of women in the context of climate change. This book addresses this absence by investigating the structure of women’s livelihoods and coping capacity in a disaster vulnerable coastal area of Bangladesh.The research findings suggest ...
Disasters, Vulnerability, and Narratives: Writing Haiti’s Futures
1st Edition
By Kasia Mika
June 30, 2020
This book uses narrative responses to the 2010 Haiti earthquake as a starting point for an analysis of notions of disaster, vulnerability, reconstruction and recovery. The turn to a wide range of literary works enables a composite comparative analysis, which encompasses the social, political and ...
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. ...
Unravelling the Fukushima Disaster
1st Edition
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By Mitsuo Yamakawa, Daisaku Yamamoto
June 14, 2018
The Fukushima disaster continues to appear in national newspapers when there is another leakage of radiation-contaminated water, evacuation designations are changed, or major compensation issues arise and so remains far from over. However, after five years, attention and research towards the ...
Community Engagement in Post-Disaster Recovery
1st Edition
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By Graham Marsh, Iftekhar Ahmed, Martin Mulligan, Jenny Donovan, Steve Barton
September 18, 2017
Community Engagement in Post-Disaster Recovery reflects a wide array of practical experiences in working with disaster-affected communities internationally. It demonstrates that widely held assumptions about the benefits of community consultation and engagement in disaster recovery work need to be ...
Recovery from Disaster
1st Edition
By Ian Davis, David Alexander
September 01, 2015
Disasters can dominate newspaper headlines and fill our TV screens with relief appeals, but the complex long-term challenge of recovery—providing shelter, rebuilding safe dwellings, restoring livelihoods and shattered lives—generally fails to attract the attention of the public and most agencies. ...