Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction and Management.
The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future development of conceptual, theoretica...
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2012
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; The Routledge Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Author biographies; Foreword by Salvano Briceño; Acknowledgements; 1. Challenging risk: we offer the reader a left-foot book: The Editors; Part I: Big picture views
- hazards, vulnerabilities and capacities; 2. Introduction to Part I: The Editors; 3. Framing disaster: theories and stories seeking to understand hazards, vulnerability and risk: Ben Wisner, JC Gaillard and Ilan Kelman; Politics, history and power.
- 4. Historical concepts of disasters and risk: Greg Bankoff5. Politics: power and disasters: Adolfo Mascarenhas and Ben Wisner; 6. Human rights and disaster: Jean Connolly Carmalt and Claudine Haenni Dale; 7. Violent conflict, natural hazards and disaster: Ben Wisner; Culture, knowledge and religion; 8. Culture, hazard and disaster: Kenneth Hewitt; 9. Knowledge and disaster risk reduction: Jessica Mercer; 10. Religious interpretations of disaster: David Chester, Angus M. Duncan and Heather Sangster; 11. Hazards and disasters represented in film: Gregory Berger and Ben Wisner.
- 12. Hazards and disasters represented in music: Bob AlexanderEnvironment, development and sustainability; 13. Hazards, risk and urbanisation: Mark Pelling; 14. Disaster risk and sustainable development: Christopher M. Bacon; Part II: Fine-grained views
- hazards, vulnerabilities and capacities; 15. Introduction to Part II: The Editors; All hazards; 16. Data sources on hazards: Julio Serje; 17. Tools for identifying hazards: Keiko Saito, Jane Strachan, Timothy Fewtrell, Nick Rosser, Susanna Jenkins, Aidan Slingsby and Katharine Haynes; Hydro-meteorological/climatological hazards.
- 18. Hazard, risk and climate change: David Simon19. Coastal storm: Sebastiaan N. Jonkman, Herman Gerritsen and Marcel Marchand; 20. Thunderstorm and tornado: David Etkin, Kaz Higuchi and George Platsis; 21. Flood: Hanna Schmuck; 22. Drought: Thomas A. Smucker; 23. Extreme heat and cold: Sabrina McCormick; 24. Wildfire: Roger Underwood and Alexander Held; Geophysical hazards; 25. Landslide and other mass movements: Danang Sri Hadmoko and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro; 26. Earthquake: Cinna Lomnitz and Ben Wisner; 27. Tsunami: Brian G. McAdoo.
- 28. Volcanic eruption: Susanna Jenkins and Katharine Haynes29. Soil erosion and contamination: Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro; Biological/ecological hazards; 30. Human epidemic: Chris Dibben; 31. Livestock epidemic: Delia Grace and John McDermott; 32. Plant disease, pests and erosion of biodiversity: Pascal O. Girot; Astronomical hazards; 33. Hazards from space: Bill McGuire; Vulnerabilities and capacities; 34. Disability and disaster: David Alexander, JC Gaillard and Ben Wisner; 35. Gender, sexuality and disaster: Maureen Fordham; 36. Children, youth and disaster: Agnes A. Babugura.
