Despite highly specialised and capable emergency management systems, ordinary citizens
are usually first on the scene in an emergency or disaster, and remain long after official …

Local and traditional ecological knowledge (LTK) is increasingly recognized as an important
component of scientific research, conservation, and resource management. Especially …

An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era approaches the contemporary age, between the
late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, as an archaeological period defined by specific …

The important role that local knowledge and practices can play in reducing risk and
improving disaster preparedness is now acknowledged by disaster risk reduction …

The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and
disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary …

Worldwide, disasters and climate change pose a serious risk to sustainable urban
development, resulting in escalating human and economic costs. Consequently, city …

Understanding how social-ecological systems are and can be resilient to climate change is
one of the world's most crucial problems today. It requires knowledge at local and global …

This book provides a wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary economic, social,
political and environmental change in small islands, island states and territories, through …

Abstract Theory suggests that social capital should moderate the impacts of climatic and
geophysical hazards and shape adaptive capacities and recovery trajectories, yet the …

This chapter highlights the complexity of the disaster migration nexus. Environmental
circumstances alone are not responsible for resettlement, but they can exacerbate the social …