'resilience is in danger of becoming a vacuous buzzword from overuse and ambiguity'(Rose
2007: 384)'Resilience'is widely used in public policy debate in Australia in contexts as …

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-
date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they …

Climate change presents the need and opportunity for what the Stern report called 'major,
non-marginal change'. Such transformational adaptation is rapidly emerging as a serious …

Concepts ofmateriality'are increasingly invoked in human geography. This paper discusses
several recent and influential workings of materiality, and examines their implications for …

Dzud is the Mongolian term for a severe winter weather disaster. With global change dzud
may increase in frequency and intensity, placing livestock and livelihoods at risk. We …

Droughts have significant environmental and socio-economic impacts in Australia. This
emphasizes Australia's vulnerability to climate variability and limitations of adaptive capacity …

The traditional reductionist approach to science has a tendency to create 'islands of
knowledge in a sea of ignorance', with a much stronger focus on analysis of scientific inputs …

Droughts are natural hazards characterized by a prolonged period of below-average
precipitation. Water scarcity is defined as insufficient water resources to meet demands in a …

Ecological risk is challenging the modern societal development approach that has
dominated thought and practice for centuries. Due to incomplete assumptions about the …

As this edition of The World's Water goes to press in early 2011, eastern Australia is
recovering from devastating floods that claimed more than 20 lives and destroyed hundreds …