Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian Ocean World

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).

• 1. Revisiting Southeast Asian history with geology: some demographic consequences of a dangerous environment Anthony Reid.- 2. ‘The sea becomes mulberry fields and mulberry fields become the sea’: dikes in the eastern Red River delta, c.200 BCE to the Twenty-first century CE Tana Li.- 3. ‘The most horrible of evils’: Social responses to drought and famine in the Bombay Presidency, 1782-1857 George Adamson.- 4. Philippine Typhoons since the seventeenth century James Francis Warren.- 5. Bushfire in Madagascar: natural hazard, useful tool and change agent Christian Kull.- 6. Emperor Tự Đức’s ‘Bad Weather’: Interpreting Natural Disasters in Vietnam, 1847-1883 Kathryn Dyt.- 7. Storm over San Isidro: Repeated disasters and civic community culture in nineteenth century Philippines Greg Bankoff.- 8. Disaster management and colonialism in the Indonesian archipelago, 1840-1920 Alicia Schrikker.- 9. Cyclones, Drought, and Slavery: Environment and Enslavement in the Western Indian Ocean, 1870s-1920s Matthew S. Hopper.- 10. Their inescapable portion? Cyclones, disaster relief, and the political economy of pearlshelling in Northwest Australia, 1865-1935.