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The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much
expanded and fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme
environmental events that threaten people and what they value in
the 21st century globally. It integrates cutting-edge materials to
provide an interdisciplinary approach to environmental hazards and
their management, illustrating how natural and human systems
interact to place communities of all sizes, and at all stages of
economic development, at risk. Part One defines basic concepts of
hazard, risk, vulnerability and disaster and explores the evolution
of hazards theory. Part Two employs a consistent chapter structure
to demonstrate how individual hazards occur, their impacts, and how
the risks can be assessed and managed. This extensively revised
edition includes: Fresh perspectives on the reliability of disaster
data, disaster risk reduction, risk and disaster perception and
communication, and new technologies available to assist with
environmental hazard management The addition of several new
environmental hazards including landslide and avalanches,
cryospheric hazards, karst and subsidence hazards, and hazards of
the Anthropocene More boxed sections with a focus on both generic
issues and the lessons to be learned from a carefully selected
range of up to date extreme events An annotated list of key
resources, including further reading and relevant websites, for all
chapters More colour diagrams and photographs, and more than 1,000
references to some of the most significant and recent published
material. New exercises to assist teaching in the classroom, or
self-learning This carefully structured and balanced textbook
captures the complexity and dynamism of environmental hazards and
is essential reading for students across many disciplines including
Geography, Environmental Science, Environmental Studies and Natural
Resources.
When an earthquake hits a war zone or cyclone aid is flown in by an
enemy, many ask: Can catastrophe bring peace? Disaster prevention
and mitigation provide similar questions. Could setting up a flood
warning system bring enemy countries together? Could a regional
earthquake building code set the groundwork for wider regional
cooperation? This book examines how and why disaster-related
activities do and do not create peace and reduce conflict.
Disaster-related activities refer to actions before a disaster such
as prevention and mitigation along with actions after a disaster
such as emergency response, humanitarian relief, and
reconstruction. This volume investigates disaster diplomacy case
studies from around the world, in a variety of political and
disaster circumstances, from earthquakes in Greece and Turkey
affecting these neighbours' bilateral relations to volcanoes and
typhoons influencing intra-state conflict in the Philippines.
Dictatorships are amongst the case studies, such as Cuba and Burma,
along with democracies such as the USA and India. No evidence is
found to suggest that disaster diplomacy is a prominent factor in
conflict resolution. Instead, disaster-related activities often
influence peace processes in the short-term-over weeks and
months-provided that a non-disaster-related basis already existed
for the reconciliation. That could be secret negotiations between
the warring parties or strong trade or cultural links. Over the
long-term, disaster-related influences disappear, succumbing to
factors such as a leadership change, the usual patterns of
political enmity, or belief that an historical grievance should
take precedence over disaster-related bonds. This is the first book
on disaster diplomacy. Disaster-politics interactions have been
studied for decades, but usually from a specific political framing,
covering a specific geographical area, or from a specific disaster
framing. As well, plenty of quantitative work has been completed,
yet the data limitations are rarely admitted openly or thoroughly
analysed. Few publications bring together the topics of disasters
and politics in terms of a disaster diplomacy framework, yielding a
grounded, qualitative, scientific point of view on the topic.
The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much
expanded and fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme
environmental events that threaten people and what they value in
the 21st century globally. It integrates cutting-edge materials to
provide an interdisciplinary approach to environmental hazards and
their management, illustrating how natural and human systems
interact to place communities of all sizes, and at all stages of
economic development, at risk. Part One defines basic concepts of
hazard, risk, vulnerability and disaster and explores the evolution
of hazards theory. Part Two employs a consistent chapter structure
to demonstrate how individual hazards occur, their impacts, and how
the risks can be assessed and managed. This extensively revised
edition includes: Fresh perspectives on the reliability of disaster
data, disaster risk reduction, risk and disaster perception and
communication, and new technologies available to assist with
environmental hazard management The addition of several new
environmental hazards including landslide and avalanches,
cryospheric hazards, karst and subsidence hazards, and hazards of
the Anthropocene More boxed sections with a focus on both generic
issues and the lessons to be learned from a carefully selected
range of up to date extreme events An annotated list of key
resources, including further reading and relevant websites, for all
chapters More colour diagrams and photographs, and more than 1,000
references to some of the most significant and recent published
material. New exercises to assist teaching in the classroom, or
self-learning This carefully structured and balanced textbook
captures the complexity and dynamism of environmental hazards and
is essential reading for students across many disciplines including
Geography, Environmental Science, Environmental Studies and Natural
Resources.
An earthquake shatters Haiti and a hurricane slices through Texas.
We hear that nature runs rampant, seeking to destroy us through
these 'natural disasters'. Science recounts a different story,
however: disasters are not the consequence of natural causes; they
are the consequence of human choices and decisions. We put
ourselves in harm's way; we fail to take measures which we know
would prevent disasters, no matter what the environment does. This
can be both hard to accept, and hard to unravel. A complex of
factors shape disasters. They arise from the political processes
dictating where and what we build, and from social circumstances
which create and perpetuate poverty and discrimination. They
develop from the social preference to blame nature for the damage
wrought, when in fact events such as earthquakes and storms are
entirely commonplace environmental processes. We feel the need to
fight natural forces, to reclaim what we assume is ours, and to
protect ourselves from what we perceive to be wrath from outside
our communities. This attitude distracts us from the real causes of
disasters: humanity's decisions, as societies and as individuals.
It stops us accepting the real solutions to disasters: making
better decisions. This book explores stories of some of our worst
disasters to show how we can and should act to stop people dying
when nature unleashes its energies. The disaster is not the
tornado, the volcanic eruption, or climate change, but the deaths
and injuries, the loss of irreplaceable property, and the lack and
even denial of support to affected people, so that a short-term
interruption becomes a long-term recovery nightmare. But we can
combat this, as Kelman shows, describing inspiring examples of
effective human action that limits damage, such as managing
flooding in Toronto and villages in Bangladesh, or wildfires in
Colorado. Throughout, his message is clear: there is no such thing
as a natural disaster. The disaster lies in our inability to deal
with the environment and with ourselves.
Adaptation to Climate Change: ASEAN and Comparative Experiences
presents a dynamic and comprehensive collection of works from legal
scholars around the world that delves into a relatively new
frontier on legal aspects of climate change adaptation with focus
on the ASEAN region, both at the regional level as well as at the
national level in some ASEAN countries - such as Malaysia,
Philippines, and Thailand. Other countries not within ASEAN are
also represented, such as Bangladesh, People's Republic of China,
Sri Lanka, and the Republic of Taiwan. In doing so, it surveys one
of the most important issues confronting developing countries
today, and the challenges to building resilient societies. It is an
essential source of reference for policy-makers, administrators,
the private sector officials, scientists, academic scholars,
climatologists, NGOs, and CSOs in ASEAN and the world.
When an earthquake hits a war zone or cyclone aid is flown in by
an enemy, many ask: Can catastrophe bring peace? Disaster
prevention and mitigation provide similar questions. Could setting
up a flood warning system bring enemy countries together? Could a
regional earthquake building code set the groundwork for wider
regional cooperation?
This book examines how and why disaster-related activities do and
do not create peace and reduce conflict. Disaster-related
activities refer to actions before a disaster such as prevention
and mitigation along with actions after a disaster such as
emergency response, humanitarian relief, and reconstruction. This
volume investigates disaster diplomacy case studies from around the
world, in a variety of political and disaster circumstances, from
earthquakes in Greece and Turkey affecting these neighbours'
bilateral relations to volcanoes and typhoons influencing
intra-state conflict in the Philippines. Dictatorships are amongst
the case studies, such as Cuba and Burma, along with democracies
such as the USA and India. No evidence is found to suggest that
disaster diplomacy is a prominent factor in conflict resolution.
Instead, disaster-related activities often influence peace
processes in the short-term-over weeks and months-provided that a
non-disaster-related basis already existed for the reconciliation.
That could be secret negotiations between the warring parties or
strong trade or cultural links. Over the long-term,
disaster-related influences disappear, succumbing to factors such
as a leadership change, the usual patterns of political enmity, or
belief that an historical grievance should take precedence over
disaster-related bonds.
This is the first book on disaster diplomacy. Disaster-politics
interactions have been studied for decades, but usually from a
specific political framing, covering a specific geographical area,
or from a specific disaster framing. As well, plenty of
quantitative work has been completed, yet the data limitations are
rarely admitted openly or thoroughly analysed. Few publications
bring together the topics of disasters and politics in terms of a
disaster diplomacy framework, yielding a grounded, qualitative,
scientific point of view on the topic.
The Routledge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate
Change Adaptation aims to provide an overview and critique of the
current state of knowledge, policy, and practice, encouraging
engagement, and reflection on bringing the two sectors together.
This long-awaited and welcomed volume makes a compelling case that
a common research agenda and a series of practical policies and
policy recommendations can and should be put in place. Over 40
contributions explore DRR including CCA in five parts. The first
part presents and interrogates much of the typical vocabulary seen
in DRR including CCA, not only pointing out the useful and
not-so-useful dimensions, but also providing alternatives and
positive examples. The second part explains how to move forward
creating and supporting positive crossovers and connections, while
the third one explores some aspects of multi-dimensional approaches
to knowing and understanding. The fourth part argues for a balanced
approach to governance, taking both governmental and
non-governmental governance, as well as different scales of
governance, into consideration. The final part of the Handbook
emphasises DRR including CCA as an investment, rather than a cost,
and connects its further implementation with livelihoods of people
around the world. This handbook highlights the connections amongst
the processes of dealing with disasters and dealing with climate
change. It demonstrates how little climate change brings which is
new and emphasises the strengths of placing climate change within
wider contexts in order to draw on all our strengths while
overcoming limitations with specialities. It will prove to be a
valuable guide for graduate and advanced undergraduate students,
academics, policy makers, and practitioners with an interest in
disaster risk reduction and climate change.
Big or small, islands and their inhabitant communities have long
been the focus of intellectual enquiry, but in recent years a whole
host of new academic institutes, journals, and conferences have
devoted themselves to their study and research. And while early
scholarly work mostly originated from those working in the natural
sciences, and in Physical and Human Geography, Anthropology, and
Archaeology, in the last twenty years or so serious research has
also burgeoned under the rubric of, for example, Cultural
Geography, Regional Development, Environmental Studies, Tourism,
and Identity Studies. This new four-volume collection from
Routledge meets the need for a comprehensive reference work to
allow users to make better sense of this voluminous scholarly and
practical literature. Indeed, the sheer scale-and range-of the
research output makes this title especially welcome. Island Studies
is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly
written by the editors, which places the material in its
intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is
destined to be valued by scholars, advanced students, and
policy-makers as a vital one-stop research resource.
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Disaster Risk (Hardcover)
Ben Wisner, J.C. Gaillard, Ilan Kelman
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Especially in an era of rapid global environmental change,
questions and issues about and around natural hazards and disasters
are dizzying in their complexity-and urgency. Answering the need
for an authoritative reference work to make sense of this
fast-moving area, and its vast and multidisciplinary corpus of
scholarly literature, Disaster Risk is a new title from the
acclaimed Routledge series, Critical Concepts in the Environment.
Edited by a trio of expert researchers, this new collection of
major works embraces a wide variety of methodological traditions to
bring together in four volumes the foundational and the very best
cutting-edge scholarship. The collection enables users to
access-and to make sense of-the most important research and
practice. It provides a synoptic view of all the key issues,
current debates, and controversies. Disaster Risk is fully indexed
and includes comprehensive introductions, newly written by the
editors, which place the collected materials in their historical
and intellectual context. It is an essential reference collection
and is destined to be valued by scholars and students-as well as
policy-makers and practitioners-as a vital one-stop research and
pedagogic resource. oe oe oe Disaster Risk is edited by three
leading scholars in the field: Ben Wisner, formerly Director of
International Studies at California State University at Long Beach,
with a long career before that in research and teaching. He is
presently engaged in full-time research and writing and has
recently completed a four-year project for the United Nations
University on defining and managing urban social vulnerability to
disasters in six megacities (Johannesburg, Tokyo, Manila, Mumbai,
Mexico City, and Los Angeles). The other co-editors of this
Routledge Major Works collection are J. C. Gaillard of the
University of Auckland, New Zealand; and Ilan Kelman, based at the
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo,
Norway.
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, theoretical and practical approaches as
well as empirical knowledge and available tools. Organised into
five inter-related sections, this Handbook contains sixty-five
contributions from leading scholars. Section One situates hazards
and disasters in their broad political, cultural, economic, and
environmental context. Section Two contains treatments of
potentially damaging natural events/phenomena organized by major
earth system. Section Three critically reviews progress in
responding to disasters including warning, relief and recovery.
Section Four addresses mitigation of potential loss and prevention
of disasters under two sub-headings: governance, advocacy and
self-help, and communication and participation. Section Five ends
with a concluding chapter by the editors. The engaging
international contributions reflect upon the politics and policy of
how we think about and practice applied hazard research and
disaster risk reduction. This Handbook provides a wealth of
interdisciplinary information and will appeal to students and
practitioners interested in Geography, Environment Studies and
Development Studies.
This book presents a portrait of the social advantages and
limitations of climate change related modeling in the Hindu
Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region. Physical systems modeling - such as of
climate, weather, water, and soil - can be useful planning tools,
and are essential to the forecasts and projections used
operationally for decisions on climate and development. However,
these models and their limitations are rarely discussed in terms of
how they are interpreted, misinterpreted, used, not used, needed
and not needed by society at the local level for climate change
adaptation. This publication addresses the implied but largely
uncritiqued relationships between scientific modeling knowledge and
local adaptation responses. It also presents theoretical
perspectives on modeling and adaptation, supported by case studies
of model use, non-use, interpretation and misinterpretation in the
HKH region for application at the local level. It provides a
critical angle into the value of modeling at multiple decision
making scales in society, but focused on local needs. Case studies
are presented from a variety of HKH countries, as defined by ICIMOD
(which includes Bangladesh and Myanmar).
There is a perennial gap between theory and practice, between
academia and active professionals in the field of disaster
management. This gap means that valuable lessons are not learned
and people die or suffer as a result. This book opens a dialogue
between theory and practice. It offers vital lessons to
practitioners from scholarship on natural hazards, disaster risk
management and reduction and developments studies, opening up new
insights in accessible language with practical applications. It
also offers to academics the insights of the enormous experience
practitioners have accumulated, highlighting gaps in research and
challenging assumptions and theories against the reality of
experience. Disaster Management covers issues in all phases of the
disaster cycle: preparedness, prevention, response and recovery. It
also addresses cross-cutting issues including political, economic
and social factors that influence differential vulnerability, and
key areas of practice such as vulnerability mapping, early warning,
infrastructure protection, emergency management, reconstruction,
health care and education, and gender issues. The team of
international authors combine their years of experience in research
and the field to offer vital lessons for practitioners, academics
and students alike.
There is a perennial gap between theory and practice, between
academia and active professionals in the field of disaster
management. This gap means that valuable lessons are not learned
and people die or suffer as a result. This book opens a dialogue
between theory and practice. It offers vital lessons to
practitioners from scholarship on natural hazards, disaster risk
management and reduction and developments studies, opening up new
insights in accessible language with practical applications. It
also offers to academics the insights of the enormous experience
practitioners have accumulated, highlighting gaps in research and
challenging assumptions and theories against the reality of
experience. Disaster Management covers issues in all phases of the
disaster cycle: preparedness, prevention, response and recovery. It
also addresses cross-cutting issues including political, economic
and social factors that influence differential vulnerability, and
key areas of practice such as vulnerability mapping, early warning,
infrastructure protection, emergency management, reconstruction,
health care and education, and gender issues. The team of
international authors combine their years of experience in research
and the field to offer vital lessons for practitioners, academics
and students alike.
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, theoretical and practical approaches as
well as empirical knowledge and available tools. Organized into
five inter-related sections, this Handbook contains sixty-five
contributions from leading scholars. Section one situates hazards
and disasters in their broad political, cultural, economic, and
environmental context. Section two contains treatments of
potentially damaging natural events/phenomena organized by major
earth system. Section three critically reviews progress in
responding to disasters including warning, relief and recovery.
Section four addresses mitigation of potential loss and prevention
of disasters under two sub-headings: governance, advocacy and
self-help, and communication and participation. Section five ends
with a concluding chapter by the editors. The engaging
international contributions reflect upon the politics and policy of
how we think about and practice applied hazard research and
disaster risk reduction. This Handbook provides a wealth of
interdisciplinary information and will appeal to students and
practitioners interested in Geography, Environment Studies and
Development Studies.
The Routledge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate
Change Adaptation aims to provide an overview and critique of the
current state of knowledge, policy, and practice, encouraging
engagement, and reflection on bringing the two sectors together.
This long-awaited and welcomed volume makes a compelling case that
a common research agenda and a series of practical policies and
policy recommendations can and should be put in place. Over 40
contributions explore DRR including CCA in five parts. The first
part presents and interrogates much of the typical vocabulary seen
in DRR including CCA, not only pointing out the useful and
not-so-useful dimensions, but also providing alternatives and
positive examples. The second part explains how to move forward
creating and supporting positive crossovers and connections, while
the third one explores some aspects of multi-dimensional approaches
to knowing and understanding. The fourth part argues for a balanced
approach to governance, taking both governmental and
non-governmental governance, as well as different scales of
governance, into consideration. The final part of the Handbook
emphasises DRR including CCA as an investment, rather than a cost,
and connects its further implementation with livelihoods of people
around the world. This handbook highlights the connections amongst
the processes of dealing with disasters and dealing with climate
change. It demonstrates how little climate change brings which is
new and emphasises the strengths of placing climate change within
wider contexts in order to draw on all our strengths while
overcoming limitations with specialities. It will prove to be a
valuable guide for graduate and advanced undergraduate students,
academics, policy makers, and practitioners with an interest in
disaster risk reduction and climate change.
This book explores how vulnerable and resilient communities from
SIDS are affected by climate change; proposes and, where possible,
evaluates adaptation activities; identifies factors capable of
enhancing or inhibiting SIDS people's long-term ability to deal
with climate change; and critiques the discourses, vocabularies,
and constructions around SIDS dealing with climate change. The
contributions, written by well-established scholars, as well as
emerging authors and practitioners, in the field, include
conceptual papers, coherent methodological approaches, and case
studies from the communities based in the Caribbean Sea and the
Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans. In their introduction, the
editors contextualise the book within the current literature. They
emphasise the importance of stronger links between climate change
science and policy in SIDS, both to increase effectiveness of
policy and also boost scholarly enquiry in the context of whose
communities are often excluded by mainstream research. This book is
timely and appropriate, given the recent commission by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of a Special
Report that aims at addressing vulnerabilities, "especially in
islands and coastal areas, as well as the adaptation and policy
development opportunities" following the Paris Agreement. Coupled
with this, there is also the need to support the policy community
with further scientific evidence on climate change-related issues
in SIDS, accompanying the first years of implementation of the
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Today's world is changing rapidly - technologically, socially, and
environmentally. One of the main challenges is climate change which
is accompanied by an explosion of scientific and policy material.
This volume provides 'usable science' based on cutting edge
research regarding the impact of climate change on specific sectors
in municipalities in Norway. Topics covered include climate
change's expected impacts on Norway; agricultural runoff and
drinking water quality under climate change scenarios; managing
cultural heritage sites, including monuments and building facades,
facing climate change difficulties; local floodplain management and
how municipalities need to approach climate change for
decision-making.
Today's world is changing rapidly - technologically, socially, and
environmentally. One of the main challenges is climate change which
is accompanied by an explosion of scientific and policy material.
This volume provides 'usable science' based on cutting edge
research regarding the impact of climate change on specific sectors
in municipalities in Norway. Topics covered include climate
change's expected impacts on Norway; agricultural run-off and
drinking water quality under climate change scenarios; managing
cultural heritage sites, including monuments and building facades,
facing climate change difficulties; local floodplain management and
how municipalities need to approach climate change for
decision-making.
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