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Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Why a textbook on disaster risk? -- A growing field of scholarship -- The state of the field -- The emergence and growth of academic programmes on disaster risk -- The need for a textbook -- Structure of the book -- References -- Part I The nature and impact of disasters -- 1. Disaster risk -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The meaning of disaster risk: a departure point -- 1.3 The international agenda: a brief historical account -- 1.4 Understanding disaster risk: a journey through the academic perspective -- 1.5 Key strands and major paradigms in disaster risk -- 1.6 What on earth then is disaster risk? -- 1.7 Concluding remarks -- Further suggested reading -- References -- 2. Where and when disasters occur -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Urban and countryside disasters, and how one relates to the other -- 2.3 Centre-periphery and disasters -- 2.4 Hazard control over a disaster's spatio-temporal realm -- 2.5 When disasters occur -- 2.6 Concluding remarks -- Further suggested reading -- References -- 3. The impact of disasters -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Thinking about the types of disasters and their impacts: everyday, cascading and protracted typologies -- 3.3 Looking at types of damage and impacts in the short and long term -- 3.4 Concluding remarks -- Further suggested reading -- References -- Part II Vulnerabilities and capacities -- 4. Why do disasters occur? -- 4.1 Why do disasters occur? -- 4.2 Underlying causes of disasters -- 4.3 Approaching vulnerability -- 4.4 Concluding remarks -- Further suggested reading -- References -- 5. People's vulnerability -- 5.1 What is vulnerability and how do people become vulnerable? -- 5.2 Vulnerability and exposure -- 5.3 Who's vulnerable? -- 5.4 Intersectionality -- 5.5 Concluding remarks -- Note. , Further suggested reading -- References -- 6. People's capacities -- 6.1 What is capacity? -- 6.2 Characteristics of capacity -- 6.3 Capacity and vulnerability -- 6.4 Capacities at a household/community level -- 6.5 Capacity at an institutional level -- 6.6 Assessing capacity -- 6.7 Harnessing capacities -- 6.8 Concluding remarks -- Further suggested reading -- References -- Part III Natural and socio-natural hazards -- 7. Endogenous processes: Earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis -- 7.1 Introduction: the Earth's internal engine and plate tectonic -- 7.2 Earthquake hazards -- 7.3 Volcanic hazards -- 7.4 Tsunamis -- 7.5 Concluding remarks -- Further suggested reading -- References -- 8. Gravity-driven natural exogenous processes -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Gravity-driven rock and sediment movements as a hazard -- 8.3 Landslides classification -- 8.4 Triggering mechanisms and causes of gravity-driven movements and flows -- 8.5 Mass movement soil mechanics for safety assessment -- 8.6 The usual suspects: data used for evaluating landslide hazards -- 8.7 Concluding remarks -- Further suggested reading -- References -- 9. Climatological and hydrometeorological hazards -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 From atmospheric energy to water resource -- 9.3 Water in the atmosphere and acid rainfall hazards -- 9.4 Typhoons, hurricanes and tropical cyclones -- 9.5 Tornadoes and twisters -- 9.6 Floods from precipitations on land -- 9.7 Surface water and open-channel flood assessment parameters -- 9.8 Flood hazards -- 9.9 The interplay between river and coastal processes in generating river floods -- 9.10 Dropping the temperature -- 9.11 Droughts and the lack of water -- 9.12 Concluding remarks -- Further suggested reading -- References -- 10. Socio-natural hazards -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Defining socio-natural hazards. , 10.3 Significant drivers of socio-natural hazards: key issues and information -- 10.4 Socio-natural hazards: some examples -- 10.5 Concluding remarks -- Further suggested reading -- References -- Part IV People's response to and resilience during and after disasters -- 11. People's behaviour in times of disaster -- 11.1 Questioning the mainstream narrative -- 11.2 What is people's behaviour? -- 11.3 People's behaviour in times of disasters -- 11.4 Scientific rebuttals to myths about people's behaviour in times of disasters -- 11.5 Reasserting the prosocial people's behaviour in times of disasters -- 11.6 Explanations to people's behaviour in times of disasters -- 11.7 Concluding remarks -- Further suggested reading -- References -- 12. People's resilience -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Resilience and complexity -- 12.3 Coming to terms: defining resilience -- 12.4 Dimensions of resilience -- 12.5 Resilience and vulnerability -- 12.6 Characteristics of resilient systems -- 12.7 Resilience pivots -- 12.8 Resilience in complex systems: a conceptual model -- 12.9 Resilience for disaster risk reduction -- 12.10 Resilience following disasters: bouncing forward, or is it? -- 12.11 Concluding remarks -- Further suggested reading -- References -- 13 Moving towards disaster recovery -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Vision and leadership -- 13.3 Resources and organisation for recovery -- 13.4 Recovery is beyond physical reconstruction -- 13.5 Self-recovery -- 13.6 Disaster recovery as a social process -- 13.7 Disaster recovery and the environment -- 13.8 Disaster recovery and the role of law -- 13.9 Voice in disaster recovery -- 13.10 Disaster memory and recovery -- 13.11 Recovery and local capacities -- 13.12 Concluding remarks -- Further suggested reading -- References -- Part V Disaster risk reduction and management -- 14. Disaster risk reduction. , 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 What is disaster risk reduction? -- 14.3 Development of disaster risk reduction -- 14.4 Disaster risk reduction at different scales -- 14.5 Disaster risk reduction through multisectoral and transdisciplinary cooperation -- 14.6 Components of disaster risk management -- 14.7 Disaster risk reduction, sustainable development and climate change adaptation -- 14.8 Concluding remarks -- Further suggested reading -- References -- 15. Disaster management -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 From disaster preparedness to response -- 15.3 Disaster response and relief -- 15.4 Concluding remarks -- Further suggested reading -- References -- 16. Fostering disaster recovery -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Recovery coordination or collaboration? -- 16.3 Coordination: temporary or long term? -- 16.4 What is coordination? -- 16.5 Values and social interfaces in recovery -- 16.6 Interdependencies in disaster recovery -- 16.7 Recovery coordination and collaboration: a governance issue? -- 16.8 Concluding remarks -- Further suggested reading -- References -- What do we know and need to know? -- References -- List of key concepts -- Index.