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Men, Masculinities and Disaster
Häftad, 2018
752 kr
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In the examination of gender as a driving force in disasters, too little attention has been paid to how women’s or men’s disaster experiences relate to the wider context of gender inequality, or how gender-just practice can help prevent disasters or address climate change at a structural level.With …
Gender-Based Violence and Layered Disasters
Place, Culture and Survival
Häftad, 2022
602 kr
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This book investigates the widespread and persistent relationship between disasters and gender-based violence, drawing on new research with victim-survivors to show how the two forms of harm constitute ‘layered disasters’ in particular places, intensifying and reproducing one another. The evidence …
Rebuilding Fukushima
Av Mitsuo Yamakawa, Daisaku Yamamoto
Häftad, 2021
718 kr
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Five years after the one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, Fukushima now only occasionally headlines national and international media. However, the disaster is far from over, as evidenced by a hundred thousand people from Fukushima still in the state of evacuation, rising levels of …
Climate Hazard Crises in Asian Societies and Environments
Häftad, 2019
500 kr
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Climate hazards are the world’s most widespread, deadliest and costliest natural disasters. Knowledge of climate hazard dynamics is critical since the impacts of climate change, population growth, development projects and migration affect both the impact and severity of disasters. Current global …
Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity on Islands
History and Contemporary Perspectives from the Azores
Av David Chester, Angus Duncan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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This volume examines the impact of and responses to historic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the Azores. Study is placed in the contexts of: the history and geography of this fascinating archipelago; progress being made in predicting future events and policies of disaster risk reduction. This …
Crisis and Emergency Management in the Arctic
Navigating Complex Environments
Av Natalia Andreassen, Odd Jarl Borch
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
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This book sheds light on the management challenges of crisis and emergency response in an arctic environment.It explores how the complexity of the operational environment impacts on the risk of operations and addresses a need for tailor-made emergency response mechanisms. Through case studies of …
Disaster Deaths
Trends, Causes and Determinants
Inbunden, 2020
2519 kr
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This book conducts a systematic inquiry into the tragic deaths caused by natural disasters at different geographic scales. It employs key disaster concepts and classification of disasters to understand the high mortality rates and the various factors associated with these deaths. Deaths are the …
Understanding Climate Change through Gender Relations
Av Susan Buckingham, Virginie Le Masson
Häftad, 2019
752 kr
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This book explains how gender, as a power relationship, influences climate change related strategies, and explores the additional pressures that climate change brings to uneven gender relations. It considers the ways in which men and women experience the impacts of these in different economic …
Climate Change and Urban Settlements
A Spatial Perspective of Carbon Footprint and Beyond
Häftad, 2019
752 kr
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Climate change and urbanization are two of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, and their effects are converging in dangerous ways. Cities contribute significantly to global warming, and as the world further takes a rural-urban population tilt, the next few decades pose a …
Post-Earthquake City
Disaster and Recovery in Christchurch, New Zealand
Av Paul Cloke, David Conradson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2139 kr
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This book critically assesses Christchurch, New Zealand as an evolving post-earthquake city. It examines the impact of the 2010–13 Canterbury earthquake sequence, employing a chronological structure to consider ‘damage and displacement’, ‘recovery and renewal’ and ‘the city in transition’.It offers …
Disasters and Life in Anticipation of Slow Calamity
Perspectives from the Colombian Andes
Inbunden, 2021
2519 kr
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The book provides insights into community narratives concerning life in the face of creeping calamities through a case study from the Colombian Andes. It sets out to make sense of the lived experience of disasters that are slowly unfolding as well disasters that have not yet occurred.This book …
Empowerment and Social Justice in the Wake of Disasters
Occupy Sandy in Rockaway after Hurricane Sandy, USA
Inbunden, 2022
1000 kr
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This book taps into discussions about social vulnerability, empowerment, and resistance in relation to disaster relief and recovery. It disentangles tensions and dilemmas within post-disaster empowerment, through a rich ethnographic narrative of the work of Occupy Sandy in Rockaway, New York City, …
Governance of Risk, Hazards and Disasters
Trends in Theory and Practice
Av Giuseppe Forino, Sara Bonati m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
693 kr
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Growing debates around governance are taking place among academic, policy-making, and practice-based communities. In light of the increasing focus on governance, this book presents and discusses governance as a framework that is able to both conceptualize and contextualize risks and disasters as …
Slow Disaster
Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam
Av Mitul Baruah
Inbunden, 2022
2519 kr
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This book presents a fascinating, ethnographic account of the challenges faced by communities living in Majuli, India, one of the largest river islands in the world, which has experienced immense socio-environmental transformations over the years, processes that are emblematic of the Brahmaputra …
Slow Disaster
Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam
Av Mitul Baruah
Häftad, 2024
649 kr
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This book presents a fascinating, ethnographic account of the challenges faced by communities living in Majuli, India, one of the largest river islands in the world, which has experienced immense socio-environmental transformations over the years, processes that are emblematic of the Brahmaputra …
Gender-Based Violence and Layered Disasters
Place, Culture and Survival
Inbunden, 2022
2126 kr
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This book investigates the widespread and persistent relationship between disasters and gender-based violence, drawing on new research with victim-survivors to show how the two forms of harm constitute ‘layered disasters’ in particular places, intensifying and reproducing one another. The evidence …
Crisis and Emergency Management in the Arctic
Navigating Complex Environments
Av Natalia Andreassen, Odd Jarl Borch
Häftad, 2022
689 kr
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This book sheds light on the management challenges of crisis and emergency response in an arctic environment.It explores how the complexity of the operational environment impacts on the risk of operations and addresses a need for tailor-made emergency response mechanisms. Through case studies of …
Climate Change Impacts and Women’s Livelihood
Vulnerability in Developing Countries
Av Salim Momtaz, Muhammad Asaduzzaman
Häftad, 2020
718 kr
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Very few studies have been conducted to explore the vulnerability of women in the context of climate change. This book addresses this absence by investigating the structure of women’s livelihoods and coping capacity in a disaster vulnerable coastal area of Bangladesh.The research findings suggest …
Disasters, Vulnerability, and Narratives
Writing Haiti’s Futures
Av Kasia Mika
Häftad, 2020
718 kr
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This book uses narrative responses to the 2010 Haiti earthquake as a starting point for an analysis of notions of disaster, vulnerability, reconstruction and recovery. The turn to a wide range of literary works enables a composite comparative analysis, which encompasses the social, political and …
Climate, Environmental Hazards and Migration in Bangladesh
Av Max Martin
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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The apocalyptic visions of climate change that are projected in the media often involve extreme weather events, disasters and mass migration of poor people. This book takes a critical look at this notion, drawing on research in Bangladesh, a country located at the heart of debates on climate change …
Institutionalisation of Disaster Risk Reduction
South Africa and Neoliberal Governmentality
Häftad, 2020
384 kr
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The past three decades have seen a global shift in disaster management from an event driven response to a ‘could-be’ risk management approach. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) has become entrenched as a dominant paradigm within the field of disaster management. More than a decade after adopting DRR …
Disaster Deaths
Trends, Causes and Determinants
Häftad, 2023
689 kr
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This book conducts a systematic inquiry into the tragic deaths caused by natural disasters at different geographic scales. It employs key disaster concepts and classification of disasters to understand the high mortality rates and the various factors associated with these deaths. Deaths are the …
Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gender Ramifications
Av Catarina Kinnvall, Helle Rydstrom
Häftad, 2021
718 kr
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This book focuses on the challenges of living with climate disasters, in addition to the existing gender inequalities that prevail and define social, economic and political conditions.Social inequalities have consequences for the everyday lives of women and girls where power relations, …
Risk Communication and Community Resilience
Av Bandana Kar, David M. Cochran
Häftad, 2020
718 kr
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Risk communication is crucial to building community resilience and reducing risk from extreme events.True community resilience involves accurate and timely dissemination of risk information to stakeholders. This book examines the policy and science of risk communication in the digital era. Themes …
Recovery from Disaster
Inbunden, 2015
2504 kr
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Disasters can dominate newspaper headlines and fill our TV screens with relief appeals, but the complex long-term challenge of recovery—providing shelter, rebuilding safe dwellings, restoring livelihoods and shattered lives—generally fails to attract the attention of the public and most agencies. …
Recovery from Disaster
Häftad, 2015
820 kr
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Disasters can dominate newspaper headlines and fill our TV screens with relief appeals, but the complex long-term challenge of recovery—providing shelter, rebuilding safe dwellings, restoring livelihoods and shattered lives—generally fails to attract the attention of the public and most agencies. …
Cultures and Disasters
Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction
Av Fred Krüger, Greg Bankoff m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2504 kr
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Why did the people of the Zambesi Delta affected by severe flooding return early to their homes or even choose to not evacuate? How is the forced resettlement of small-scale farmers living along the foothills of an active volcano on the Philippines impacting on their day-to-day livelihood routines? …
Cultures and Disasters
Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction
Av Fred Krüger, Greg Bankoff m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
820 kr
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Why did the people of the Zambesi Delta affected by severe flooding return early to their homes or even choose to not evacuate? How is the forced resettlement of small-scale farmers living along the foothills of an active volcano on the Philippines impacting on their day-to-day livelihood routines? …
Health, Wellbeing and Community Recovery in Fukushima
Av Sudeepa Abeysinghe, Claire Leppold m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2519 kr
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This book examines the issue of disaster recovery in relation to community wellbeing and resilience, exploring the social, political, demographic and environmental changes in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster.The contributors reflect on the Fukushima disaster of earthquake, tsunami and …
Health, Wellbeing and Community Recovery in Fukushima
Av Sudeepa Abeysinghe, Claire Leppold m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
693 kr
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This book examines the issue of disaster recovery in relation to community wellbeing and resilience, exploring the social, political, demographic and environmental changes in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster.The contributors reflect on the Fukushima disaster of earthquake, tsunami and …
