Responses to disasters and climate change : understanding vulnerability and fostering resilience / edited by Michèle Companion and Miriam S. Chaiken.
Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2017Edition: [Enhanced Credo edition]Description: 1 online resource (39 entries) : 19 images ; digital filesContent type:- still image
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- HV553 .R394 2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of figures -- List of tables -- Editors -- Contributors -- Introduction --
Section I. Methodology, policy, and early warning systems: Chapter 1. Vulnerability and resilience to climate change in a rural coastal community / Katherine J. Johnson, Brian A. Needelman, and Michael Paolisso; Chapter 2. The story of rising voices: facilitating collaboration between indigenous and western ways of knowing / Julie Maldonado, Heather Lazrus, Shiloh-Kay Bennett, Karletta Chief, Carla May Dhillon, Bob Gough, Linda Kruger, Jeff Morisette, Stefan Petrovic, and Kyle Powys Whyte; Chapter 3. Youth-based learning in disaster risk reduction education: barriers and bridges to promote resilience / Victor Marchezini and Rachel Trajber; Chapter 4. Household response to flash flooding in the united states and india: a comparative study of the 2013 Colorado and Uttarakhand disasters / Hao-Che Wu, Sudha Arlikatti, Andrew Prelog, and Clayton Wukich; Chapter 5. Traditional and contemporary social safety nets in rural Mozambique / Miriam S. Chaiken; Chapter 6. Accessing disaster recovery resource information: reliance on social capital in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy / Jason D. Rivera; Chapter 7. Lessons learned from evaluating a capacity-building initiative to foster climate change adaptation, mitigation, and resilience / Mary Ann Castle, Norma Tan, and James LaGro, Jr.;
Chapter 8. Let's talk oil spill risk: lessons learned from coastal communities in British Columbia, Canada / Shona V.Z. de Jong; Chapter 9. Imagining culture: the politics of culturally sensitive reconstruction and resilience building in post - Wenchuan earthquake China / Qiaoyun Zhang and Roberto E. Barrios; Chapter 10. The shared vulnerability and resiliency of the Fukushima animals and their rescuers / Seven Mattes -- Section II. Impacts on resilience and vulnerability: Chapter 11. Understanding child nutrition preservation after an extreme weather event disaster: lessons from Tropical Storm Ketsana and Typhoon Parma (2009) in the Philippines / Erlidia F. Llamas-Clark and Cathy Banwell; Chapter 12. Food insecurity and health disparity synergisms: reframing a praxis of anthropology and public health for displaced populations in the United States / Preety Gadhoke and Barrett P. Brenton; Chapter 13. The dynamics of vulnerability and adaptive capacity in southern Ethiopia / Logan Cochrane and Yishak Gecho; Chapter 14. The production of material goods as resilience adaptation by impelled migrants in Malawi / Michèle Companion; Chapter 15. Gender dimensions in disaster management: implications for coastal aquaculture and fishing communities in the Philippines / Morgan Chow, Lori A. Cramer, and Hillary Egna; Chapter 16. Women's leadership in Texas forest fires and recovery: how gender roles and assumptions empower and constrain women and men postdisaster in a rural southern town / Josephine Nummi and Kathryn Henderson; Chapter 17. Gender dynamics and disasters in zimbabwe: a case of Tokwe Mukosi flooding / Catherine Bwerinofa and Manase Kudzai Chiweshe --
Section III. Community-based factors that impact resilience and vulnerability: Chapter 18. Vulnerability and tourism development: fostering the capacity of resilience in the context of climate change / Sara E. Alexander; Chapter 19. Why isn't there a plan? Community vulnerability and resilience in the Latrobe Valley's open cut coal mine town / Michelle Duffy, Pamela Wood, Sue Whyte, Susan Yell, and Matthew Carroll; Chapter 20. Best family Rwanda: a case study on religious sources of resilience / Sharon Kim and David Kim; Chapter 21. Grassroots and guerrillas: radical and insurgent responses for community resilience / Natalie Osborne, Deanna Grant-Smith, and Edward Morgan; Chapter 22. "Prepper" as resilient citizen: what preppers can teach us about surviving disasters / Chad Huddleston; Chapter 23. All the years combine: the expansion and contraction of time and memory in disaster response / A.J. Faas.
This book uses case studies from around the globe to demonstrate ways that communities have fostered resilience to mitigate the impacts of climate change.