Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

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. Specifically, it aims to provide critical reviews and appraisals of the current state of the art and future development of conceptual, theoretical and practical approaches as well as empirical knowledge and available tools.

One intention is to encourage dialogue across disciplinary barriers among notions of 'disaster risk reduction' and 'vulnerability' (central concepts within the hazards and disaster community), 'climate change adaptation' and 'sustainable livelihood security' (core notions underlying much work within the climate and environmental studies community), and 'poverty reduction' (which remains a pivotal rallying point within development studies). The international reach and scope of the Handbook's coverage and contributors' experience allow engagement with and reflection upon these bridging and linking themes as well as the politics and policy of how we think about and practice applied hazard research and disaster risk reduction.

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Ben Wisner is a retired Professor who has worked on the interface between disaster risk reduction and sustainable human development since 1966. He currently conducts research and advises institutions such as the Global Network of Civil Society for Disaster Reduction. JC Gaillard is Senior Lecturer at the School of Environment of The University of Auckland, New Zealand. Ilan Kelman is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research-Oslo (CICERO).

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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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Salvano Briceno 1. Challenging Risk: We Offer the Reader a Left Foot Book The Editors Section I: Big Picture Views - Hazards, Vulnerabilities and Capacities 2. Introduction to Section I: Big Picture Views - Hazards, Vulnerabilities and Capacities The Editors 3. Framing Disaster: Theories and Stories Seeking to Understand Hazards, Vulnerability and Risk Ben Wisner, JC Gaillard and Ilan Kelman 4. Historical Concepts of Disasters and Risk Greg Bankoff 5. Politics of Disaster Risk Adolfo Mascarenhas and Ben Wisner 6. Human Rights, Disasters and State Obligations Claudine Haenni Dale and Jean Connolly Carmalt 7. Violent Conflict, Natural Hazards and Disaster Ben Wisner 8. Culture, Hazard and Disaster Kenneth Hewitt 9. Knowledge and Disaster Risk Reduction Jessica Mercer 10. Religious Interpretations of Disaster David Chester, Angus Duncan and Heather Sangster 11. Hazards and Disasters Represented in Film Greg Berger and Ben Wisner 12. Hazards and Disasters Represented in Music Bob Alexander 13. Hazard, Risk and Urbanisation Mark Pelling 14. Disaster Risk and Sustainable Development Chris Bacon Section II: Fine-Grained Views - Hazards, Vulnerabilities and Capacities 15. Introduction to Section II: Fine-Grained Views - Hazards, Vulnerabilities and Capacities The Editors 16. Data Sources on Hazards Julio Serje 17. Tools for Identifying Hazards Keiko Saito, Jane Strachan, Timothy Fewtrell, Nick Rosser, Susanna Jenkins, Aidan Slingsby and Katharine Haynes 18. Hazard, Risk and Climate Change David Simon 19. Coastal Storm Bas Jonkman, Herman Gerritsen and Marcel Marchand 20. Thunderstorm and Tornado David Etkin, Kaz Higuchi and George Platsis 21. Flood Hanna Schmuck 22. Drought Tom Smucker 23. Extreme Heat and Cold Sabrina McCormick 24. Wildfire Alexander Held 25. Landslide and other Mass Movements Danang Sri Hadmoko and Salvatore Engels-DiMauro 26. Earthquake Cinna Lomnitz and Ben Wisner 27. Tsu...

"The take-home message is that to fully understand the implications of the worlds of hazards and disaster risk, people must better understand vulnerabilities and how they create the wicked problems of communities. Undoubtedly the most comprehensive book on these topics to date. Summing Up: Essential" -CHOICE, August 2012

Autorentext
Ben Wisner is a retired Professor who has worked on the interface between disaster risk reduction and sustainable human development since 1966. He currently conducts research and advises institutions such as the Global Network of Civil Society for Disaster Reduction.

JC Gaillard is Senior Lecturer at the School of Environment of The University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Ilan Kelman is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research-Oslo (CICERO).

Klappentext

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.

Zusammenfassung

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 …