Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
Unravelling the Fukushima Disaster
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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. ...
Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction
1st Edition
Edited
By Fred Krüger, Greg Bankoff, Terry Cannon, Benedikt Orlowski, E. Lisa Schipper
April 15, 2015
Why did the people of the Zambesi Delta affected by severe flooding return early to their homes or even choose to not evacuate? How is the forced resettlement of small-scale farmers living along the foothills of an active volcano on the Philippines impacting on their day-to-day livelihood routines?...