ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |159 pages
Big Picture Views – Hazards, Vulnerabilities and Capacities
chapter |16 pages
Framing Disaster
part |47 pages
Politics, History and Power
part |59 pages
Culture, Knowledge and Religion
part |25 pages
Environment, Development and Sustainability
part |301 pages
Fine-Grained Views – Hazards, Vulnerabilities and Capacities
part |27 pages
All Hazards
part |89 pages
Hydro-Meteorological/ Climatological Hazards
part |63 pages
Geophysical Hazards
part |37 pages
Biological/Ecological Hazards
part |14 pages
Astronomical Hazards
part |59 pages
Vulnerabilities and Capacities
part |120 pages
Preparedness and Response
part |87 pages
Preparedness and Response
part |24 pages
Recovery
part |196 pages
Planning, Prevention and Mitigation
part |135 pages
Governance, Advocacy and Self-Help
part |50 pages
Communication and Participation
part |7 pages
Conclusion