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Apr 1, 2021 · Chapter 1 introduces the broad objective of the book. This is to show how history can be used to understand why biophysical shocks and hazards, sometimes leading to disasters, push societies in different directions – creating a diversity of possible social and economic outcomes.
- Bas van Bavel, Daniel R. Curtis, Jessica Dijkman, Matthew Hannaford, Maïka de Keyzer, Eline van Onac...
- 2020
Jan 1, 2015 · The collection of chapter contributions in Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society reflects how personal and corporate exposure factors, short-term reactions, and longer term responses mediate the manner in which people get understood as vulnerable, resilient, or otherwise.
- Andrew E. Collins, Bernard Manyena, Bernard Manyena, Janaka Jayawickrama, Janaka Jayawickrama, Saman...
- 2015
Jun 10, 2023 · This chapter will discuss how environmental landscapes, and resources, have been historically weaponized and deployed as human induced hazards in the practice of warfare. The Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE) project notes that...
- charles.travis@uta.edu
Mar 1, 2018 · From the mid-20th century, the field of hazard and disaster research splintered into two major paradigms: the ‘hazards’ and the ‘alternative’. The hazards paradigm captured the physical and engineering sciences and the alternative hazards paradigm focused on (successively), behavioural, development, and complexity sciences (Smith and ...
- Dale T.M. Dominey-Howes
- dale.dominey-howes@sydney.edu.au
- 2018
In their efforts to build solid knowledge about the past, professional historians—those trained formally in the research and writing of history—inevitably specialize in a field of study. As experts in one or two fields, they can focus on the unique properties of their genre of historical records and put some limits on the secondary ...
Nov 6, 2013 · This paper focuses on volcanic eruptions and draws on matched case studies to illustrate the usefulness of a two-step, quasi case–control comparative method for examining vulnerability and impacts in the near- and far-fields of these eruptions.
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Hazard mitigation includes interventions made in advance of disasters to prevent or reduce the potential for physical harm and social disruption. There are two major types of hazard mitigation.
