Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk

In Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk, the authors explain how people modify the environment and exert power over each other in ways that make nature potentially harmful and put people in harm's way.

Autorentext

Ben Wisner is an activist scholar who finds himself tempted by nostalgia for the 70s, 80s, and 90s when he worked to understand and address disaster risk with civil society and local government in a number of countries in eastern and southern Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

Irasema Alcántara-Ayala is a professor and former director at the Institute of Geography at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

JC Gaillard is Ahorangi / Professor of Geography at Waipapa Taumata Rau / The University of Auckland.

Ilan Kelman is Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, England, and a Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.

Victor Marchezini is a sociologist at the Brazilian Early Warning Center (Cemaden).

Klappentext

In Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk, the authors explain how people modify the environment and exert power over each other in ways that make nature potentially harmful and put people in harm's way.

Inhalt

1. The challenges of disaster

2. Framing disaster risk reduction

3. Abilities

4. The living world

5. Water, weather, and climate

6. Earthly hazards: earthquakes and volcanoes

7. Living with tsunamis and landslides

8. Beyond the earth

9. Disaster risk construction

10. Understanding risk and living life

11. Afterword: head and heart - Compassion and anger in disaster studies and action