Hazards & Disasters Books

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1. Handbook of Hazards, Disaster Risk Reduction and Management

   Edited by Ben Wisner, JC Gaillard, Ilan Kelman

   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. Specifically, it aims to provide critical reviews and appraisals of the current state of the art and future...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-59065-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Adaptation to Climate Change: From Resilience to Transformation

   By Mark Pelling

   The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this context, it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly defensive task – protecting core assets or functions from the risks of climate change. A more profound...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-47751-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Urban Flood Management

   By Chris Zevenbergen, Adrian Cashman, Niki Evelpidou, Erik Pasche, Stephen Garvin, Richard Ashley

   Along with windstorms, floods are the most common and widespread of all natural disasters. Although they can often be predicted, they cause loss of life, damage and destruction, as many urban communities are located near coasts and rivers. In terms of victims, floods are responsible for more than...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-55944-7 | Paperback (CRC Press)
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   Recursive Streamflow Forecasting: A State Space Approach

   By Jozsef Szilagyi, Andras Szollosi Nagy

   Practical guide to real-time streamflow forecasting that provides a rigorous description of a coupled stochastic and physically-based flow routing method and its practical applications. This method is used in current times of record-breaking floods to forecast flood levels by various Hydrological...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-56901-9 | Paperback (CRC Press)

5. Safety and Security in Tourism: Recovery Marketing after Crises

   Edited by Noel Scott, Eric Laws, Bruce Prideaux

   Natural disasters, wars and conflicts, epidemics, and other major crises can devastate a tourism service or destination. Though there is extensive literature and research on preparation and coping with tourism crises, there is a gap in information on how to best market and recover from the...

   December 2009 | 978-0-7890-3783-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. The Tsunami of 2004 in Sri Lanka: Impacts and Policy in the Shadow of Civil War

   Edited by Ragnhild Lund, Piers Blaikie

   This book is based on empirical research in Sri Lanka conducted after the catastrophic tsunami which hit the country in December 2004. The aims of the research have been to develop new knowledge on post-crisis reconstruction and recovery work, on how to bridge the knowledge gap between researchers...

   October 2009 | 978-0-415-55909-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails

   Edited by Stephen Graham

   Bringing together leading researchers from geography, political science, sociology, public policy and technology studies, Disrupted Cities exposes the politics of well-known disruptions such as devastation of New Orleans in 2005, the global SARS outbreak in 2002-3, and the great power collapse in...

   September 2009 | 978-0-415-99179-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. The Transformation of UN Conflict Management: Producing images of genocide from Rwanda to Darfur and beyond

   By Touko Piiparinen

   The world has vowed "Never again" in memory of the 800,000 Rwandans and other groups slaughtered by génocidaires. Yet, ever since the Holocaust, the international community has repeatedly betrayed its pledge, most notably in 1994 with regard to the Rwandan Tutsi, and again ten years later in Darfur...

   September 2009 | 978-0-415-54408-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Rebuilding After Disasters: From Emergency to Sustainability

   Edited by Gonzalo Lizarralde, Cassidy Johnson, Colin Davidson

   Disasters are not natural. Natural events such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, etc. become disasters because of the fragile relations that exist between the natural, human and built environments. Sadly, major disasters will always occur in towns and cities in the developing world where...

   August 2009 | 978-0-415-47254-8 | Hardback (Spon Press)
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    Disaster and Development

    By Andrew E. Collins

    Development to a large extent determines the way in which hazards impact on people. Meanwhile the occurrence of disasters alters the scope of development. Whilst a notion of the association of disaster and development is as old as development studies itself, recent decades have produced an...

    June 2009 | 978-0-415-42668-8 | Paperback (Routledge)