Arcticness

Climate change and globalisation are opening up the Arctic for exploitation by the world – or so we are told. But what about the views, interests and needs of the peoples who live in the region? This volume explores the opportunities and limitations in engaging with the Arctic under change, and the Arctic peoples experiencing the changes, socially and physically. With essays by both academics…

Crisis Management Beyond the Humanitarian-Development Nexus

In addressing humanitarian crises, the international community has long understood the need to extend beyond providing immediate relief, and to engage with long-term recovery activities and the prevention of similar crises in the future. However, this continuum from short-term relief to rehabilitation and development has often proved difficult to achieve. This book aims to shed light on the con…

Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action

Grounded in historical debates about money, Anitra Nelson draws on a spectrum of political and economic thought and activism, including feminism, ecoanarchism, degrowth, permaculture, autonomism, Marxism and ecosocialism. Looking to Indigenous rights activism and the defence of commons, an international network of activists engaged in a fight for a money-free society emerges.

Radiological Issues for Fukushima’s Revitalized Future

Effects of Radiation / Radiation Protection

Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Risks

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Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides: Volume 1 ISDR-ICL Sendai Partner…

Landslide Science; International Strategy for Disaster Reduction; Landslide Hazard Assessment; Landslide Dynamics; Landslide Risk Reduction

Vulnerability and Adaptation to Drought The Canadian Prairies and South America

Although there is considerable historical literature describing the social and economic impact of drought on the prairies in the 1930s, little has been written about the challenges presented by drought in more contemporary times. The drought of 2001-02 was, for example, the most recent large-area, intense, and prolonged drought in Canada and one of Canada’s most costly natural disasters in a …

Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides: Volume 1 ISDR-ICL Sendai Partner…

Landslide Science; International Strategy for Disaster Reduction; Landslide Hazard Assessment; Landslide Dynamics; Landslide Risk Reduction

Contextualizing Disaster

Contextualizing Disaster" offers a comparative analysis of six recent highly visible disasters and several slow-burning, hidden, crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. The book argues that, while disasters are increasingly represented by the media as unique, exceptional, newsworthy events, it is a m…

Contextualizing Disaster

Contextualizing Disaster" offers a comparative analysis of six recent highly visible disasters and several slow-burning, hidden, crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. The book argues that, while disasters are increasingly represented by the media as unique, exceptional, newsworthy events, it is a m…