To minimize the impacts of climate change on human wellbeing, governments, development
agencies, and civil society organizations have made substantial investments in improving …

There is a clear need for a state‐of‐the‐art review of how public participation in climate
change adaptation is being considered in research across academic communities: The Rio …

The first decade of the 21st century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters.
Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that …

Environmental justice has increasingly become part of the language of environmental
activism, political debate, academic research and policy making around the world. It raises …

Disaster governance is an emerging concept in the disaster research literature that is closely
related to risk governance and environmental governance. Disaster governance …

Social and ecological vulnerability to disasters and outcomes of any particular extreme
event are influenced by buildup or erosion of resilience both before and after disasters …

Landslides are generated by natural causes and by human action, causing various
geomorphological changes as well as physical and socioeconomic loss of the environment …

This fourth edition has been comprehensively rewritten and updated to provide a concise,
well illustrated and accessible introduction to the characteristics, challenges and …

This paper explores the value of using community risk assessments (CRAs) for climate
change adaptation. CRA refers to participatory methods to assess hazards, vulnerabilities …

Over the past few decades, four distinct and largely independent research and policy
communities—disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, environmental …