Reidar Staupe-Delgado is an Associate Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellow (MSCA-IF) at Roskilde University, Denmark. His research interests revolve around disasters, health emergencies and broader social problems, with a particular focus on slowly manifesting disasters.

• Foreword by JC Gaillard Part 1: Context 1. Introduction: life in anticipation of slow calamity 2. Aponte: political, geographical and community context 3. The phenomenon: the natural hazard and its characteristics: some reflections Part 2: Experiencing slow calamity 4. Making sense of the hazard: interpretations of the phenomenon 5. Living with a slow calamity: disruption and continuity in the face of creeping destruction 6. The ancestral land: territory, community and resettlement Part 3: Reflections 7. Living in anticipation of impending calamity: towards an analytical notion 8. Concluding reflections

Reidar Staupe-Delgado is an Associate Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellow (MSCA-IF) at Roskilde University, Denmark. His research interests revolve around disasters, health emergencies and broader social problems, with a particular focus on slowly manifesting disasters.

• Foreword by JC Gaillard Part 1: Context 1. Introduction: life in anticipation of slow calamity 2. Aponte: political, geographical and community context 3. The phenomenon: the natural hazard and its characteristics: some reflections Part 2: Experiencing slow calamity 4. Making sense of the hazard: interpretations of the phenomenon 5. Living with a slow calamity: disruption and continuity in the face of creeping destruction 6. The ancestral land: territory, community and resettlement Part 3: Reflections 7. Living in anticipation of impending calamity: towards an analytical notion 8. Concluding reflections

Reidar Staupe-Delgado is an Associate Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellow (MSCA-IF) at Roskilde University, Denmark. His research interests revolve around disasters, health emergencies and broader social problems, with a particular focus on slowly manifesting disasters.

• Foreword by JC Gaillard Part 1: Context 1. Introduction: life in anticipation of slow calamity 2. Aponte: political, geographical and community context 3. The phenomenon: the natural hazard and its characteristics: some reflections Part 2: Experiencing slow calamity 4. Making sense of the hazard: interpretations of the phenomenon 5. Living with a slow calamity: disruption and continuity in the face of creeping destruction 6. The ancestral land: territory, community and resettlement Part 3: Reflections 7. Living in anticipation of impending calamity: towards an analytical notion 8. Concluding reflections