Routledge Handbook of Environmental Hazards and Society

Tara K. McGee is an interdisciplinary social scientist in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her research focuses on the human dimensions of wildfires.Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell is a geographer who founded the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University, London. He is currently the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Middlesex University. He is the editor of the international journal Environmental Hazards published by Taylor & Francis.

• Table of Contents1 Introduction: Environmental Hazards today and tomorrow Tara K. McGee and Edmund C. Penning-RowsellPart 1: Environmental HazardsGeophysical hazards2 Earthquakes and Tsunami Julia S. Becker, Sara K. McBride, Lauren J. Vinnell, Wendy S.A. Saunders, Graham S. Leonard, Timothy J. Sullivan and Ken Gledhill 3 Volcanic Eruption David K. Chester and Angus M. Duncan4 Landslides Irasema Alcántara-Ayala and Marten GeertsemaHydro-meteorological /climatological hazards5 Tropical cyclones: Experiences from Bangladesh and the USAEdris Alam and Bill DelGrosso 6 Flooding Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell, Sally M. Priest and Lydia Cumiskey7 Drought: The case of South AfricaAndries Jordaan8 Extreme Heat and ColdMichael J. Allen and Daniel J. Vecellio9 WildfireTara K. McGee, Elise Gatti and Amy Cardinal Christianson10 Climate Change: Mitigation and AdaptationJörn Birkmann and Hannes Lauer Part 2: Vulnerability, Resilience, and Equity Vulnerability and Resilience11 Social Vulnerability and Resilience to Environmental HazardsKathleen Tierney12 Vulnerability: Its discursive and material natureJanki Andharia13 Community Level Social Capital and ResilienceDaniel P. Aldrich and Michelle A. Meyer14 Urban and rural interdependencies: infrastructure servicesAlexander Fekete, Asad Asadzadeh, Diana Contreras, Johannes Hamhaber, SimoneSandholz and Dominic Sett15 Critical Infrastructure and Hazards: A risk modelling approachElco Koks Equity16 Environmental Justice and Hazards: Case studies from the USA and IndiaJayajit Chakraborty and Pratyusha Basu17 Sexual and Gender Minorities in DisastersDale Dominey-Howes, Scott McKinnon, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Christine Eriksen18 Indigenous Responses to Environmental Hazard EventsSuzanne Phibbs and Christine Kenney Part 3: Preparedness, Responses, Impacts, and RecoveryAdaptation and preparedness19 Adaptation to flood risk by households and small businessesTim Harries20 Disaster Preparedness and Risk Reduction: An Asian PerspectiveRajib Shaw, Bismark adu-gyamfi, Vibhas Sukhwani21 Emergency Alerting and WarningsJeannette Sutton and Michael M. WoodResponses22 Evacuation versus shelter-in-place Jim McLennan, Chris Bearman and Barbara Ryan23 Volunteers and community participationBlythe McLennan24 Religious institutions, communities and disastersAbdur R. CheemaImpacts25 Physical health consequences of disastersPenelope Burns and Gerard FitzGerard26 Disasters and Mental HealthMichael J. Zakour27 The economic impacts of flood risk reductionEdmund C. Penning-RowsellRecovery28 Disaster RecoveryBimal K. Paul29 Regenerating Socio-Cultural Capacities and Capabilities in Disaster RecoveryDouglas Paton, Petra Buergelt, Rey-Sheng Her, Li-ju Jang, Rei-Ling Lai, Ya-Lan Tseng, Ruei-Siang Wu and Sault SagalaPart 4: Policy and PracticeGovernments30 International agreements and policiesLidia Mayner and Virginia Murray31 Governance issues with environmental hazardsLivhuwani Nemakonde, Sizwile Khoza and Dewald Van Niekerk32 Local Governments and Environmental HazardsKristin Taylor and Stephanie ZarbSupport33 Humanitarian Organizations and Aid Tammam Aloudat34 The role of Insurance in Reducing Losses from DisastersWouter Botzen and Howard Kunreuther 35 Settlement and Shelter ReconstructionErin P. O’Connell and Brent DobersteinInformation36 Disaster Risk Reduction EducationGlenn Fernandez37 News Media Coverage of Environmental HazardsBruno Takahashi38 Reflections Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell and Tara K. McGeeIndex