Natural hazards, such as floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, typhoons,
and wildfires, present significant challenges for managing risk and
vulnerability. It is crucial to understand how communities,
nations, and international regimes and organizations attempt to
manage risk and promote resilience in the face of major disruption
to the built and natural environment and social systems. The Oxford
Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards Governance offers an integrated
framework for defining, assessing, and understanding natural
hazards governance practices, processes, and dynamics - a framework
that is essential for addressing these challenges. Through a
collection of over 85 peer-reviewed articles, written by global
experts in their fields, it provides a uniquely comprehensive
treatment and current state of knowledge of the range of key
governance issues. Led by Editor in Chief Brian J. Gerber and
Associate Editors Thomas A. Birkland, Ann-Margaret Esnard, Bruce
Glavovic, Timothy Sim, Christine Wamsler, and Benjamin Wisner, the
work addresses key theoretic gaps on hazards governance in general,
and clarifies the sometimes disjointed research coverage of hazards
governance on different scales, with national, international,
local, regional, and comparative perspectives. It provides a
comprehensive framework for clarifying how governance processes and
practices are related to variations in actual performance in terms
of natural hazard events, and explicates a broad range of critical
conceptual issues in natural hazards governance by providing
syntheses of extant knowledge.
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