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Greg Bankoff, Joseph Christensen - Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian Ocean World, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian Ocean World

Bordering on Danger

Av Greg Bankoff, Joseph Christensen

Del i serien Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies

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Thisbook examines the dangers and the patterns of adaptation that emerge throughexposure to risk on a daily basis. By addressing the influence of environmental factors in Indian OceanWorld history, the collection reaches across the boundaries of the natural andsocial sciences, presenting case-studies that deal with a diverse range ofnatural hazards – fire in Madagascar, drought in India, cyclones and typhoons inOman, Australia and the Philippines, climatic variability, storms and flood inVietnam and the Philippines, and volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamisin Indonesia. These chapters, written by leading international historians,respond to a growing need to understand the ways in which natural hazards shapesocial, economic and political development of the Indian Ocean World, a regionof the globe that is highly susceptible to the impacts of seismic activity,extreme weather, and climate change.
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Greg Bankoffis Professor of Modern History at the University of Hull, United Kingdom. Hehas worked and published extensively on both the historical dimension of howsocieties adapt to risk as well as engaged with contemporary civil defence andemergency management practices in Asia, Australasia and more recently inEurope. His most recent publications include co-authoring The Red Cross’s World Disaster Report 2014: Culture and Riskand a companion coedited volume entitled Culturesand Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction(2015).  JosephChristensenis a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University,Australia, where he works in the fields of maritime and environmental history.He obtained a BA and PhD from the University of Western Australia. He isco-editor of Historical Perspectives ofFisheries Exploitation in the Indo-Pacific (2014).

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