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Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change


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Gender-Based Violence and Layered Disasters Place, Culture and Survival

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...

Climate Change and Risk in South and Southeast Asia Sociopolitical Perspectives

Climate Change and Risk in South and Southeast Asia: Sociopolitical Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Devendraraj Madhanagopal, Salim Momtaz
November 30, 2022

This book, focuses on South and Southeast Asia, upgrades our understanding of the influence of multiple sociopolitical and governance factors on climate change and risks. Moving beyond science and technology-oriented discussions on climate change, it argues that the real solutions to climate change...

Why Vulnerability Still Matters The Politics of Disaster Risk Creation

Why Vulnerability Still Matters: The Politics of Disaster Risk Creation

1st Edition

Edited By Greg Bankoff, Dorothea Hilhorst
May 06, 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

Crisis and Emergency Management in the Arctic: Navigating Complex Environments

1st Edition

Edited 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 ...

Governance of Risk, Hazards and Disasters Trends in Theory and Practice

Governance of Risk, Hazards and Disasters: Trends in Theory and Practice

1st Edition

Edited 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 ...

Rebuilding Fukushima

Rebuilding Fukushima

1st Edition

Edited 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 ...

Disaster Resilience in South Asia Tackling the Odds in the Sub-Continental Fringes

Disaster Resilience in South Asia: Tackling the Odds in the Sub-Continental Fringes

1st Edition

By Iftekhar Ahmed, Kim Maund, Thayaparan Gajendran
May 12, 2020

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 ...

The Anthropology of Disasters in Latin America State of the Art

The Anthropology of Disasters in Latin America: State of the Art

1st Edition

Edited By Virginia García-Acosta
December 12, 2019

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

Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gender Ramifications

1st Edition

Edited By Catarina Kinnvall, Helle Rydstrom
June 14, 2019

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, ...

Risk Communication and Community Resilience

Risk Communication and Community Resilience

1st Edition

Edited By Bandana Kar, David M. Cochran
June 10, 2019

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 Hazard Crises in Asian Societies and Environments

Climate Hazard Crises in Asian Societies and Environments

1st Edition

Edited 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

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 ...

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