Greg (Hrsg.) Bankoff

Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian Ocean World

Bordering on Danger

Buch

Thisbook examines the dangers and the patterns of adaptation that emerge throughexposure to risk on a daily basis. By addressing the influence of environmental factors in Indian OceanWorld history, the collection reaches across the boundaries of the natural andsocial sciences, presenting case-studies that deal with a diverse range ofnatural hazards - fire in Madagascar, drought in India, cyclones and typhoons inOman, Australia and the Philippines, climatic variability, storms and flood inVietnam and the Philippines, and volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamisin Indonesia. These chapters, written by leading international historians,respon… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Christensen, Joseph (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-349-94856-7
EAN: 9781349948567
Produktnummer: 19589342
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 336 S.
Masse: H21.8 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.5 cm 572 g
Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 572

Über den Autor

Greg Bankoffis Professor of Modern History at the University of Hull, United Kingdom. Hehas worked and published extensively on both the historical dimension of howsocieties adapt to risk as well as engaged with contemporary civil defence andemergency management practices in Asia, Australasia and more recently inEurope. His most recent publications include co-authoring The Red Cross's World Disaster Report 2014: Culture and Riskand a companion coedited volume entitled Culturesand Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction(2015). JosephChristensenis a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University,Australia, where he works in the fields of maritime and environmental history.He obtained a BA and PhD from the University of Western Australia. He isco-editor of Historical Perspectives ofFisheries Exploitation in the Indo-Pacific (2014).