Offers a comparative analysis of six recent disasters and several 'hidden’, crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change.  Meer

Acknowledging that low economic development and high climate costs do not equitably coexist, this collected volume interrogates the challenge for disaster-prone territories to determine supplemental strategies for restructuring and redesigning their environment.  Meer

Offers a comparative analysis of six recent disasters and several 'hidden’, crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change.  Meer

A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern.  Meer

Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies are trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers.  Meer

Bringing the anthropologies of disaster, epidemics, and crisis into conversation, A Revelatory Pandemic subjects the hopeful expectations of post-pandemic change to social-scientific scrutiny across Latin America and challenges popular and scholarly assumptions about the causes and outcomes of crisis.  Meer

This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This heritage of past disasters serves as inspiration for building culturally sensitive adaptions to present and future calamities, to mitigate their impacts, and facilitate recoveries.  Meer

Making Things Happen is about the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction, drawing on one project, the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP).  Meer

This book argues that disasters are intimately linked to historical processes that foster contemporary unequal relationships, and should therefore include both those commonly associated with nature as well as those we consider facets of history and social conflict, such as war and destitution.  Meer