A major contribution to the analysis of vulnerability, resilience, and the challenge of confronting environmental problems such as global climate change, 'Leadership in Disaster' is also a resource for scholars and general readers seeking to learn more about how extreme weather …
This book explores how people across Asia live, struggle, and make sense of the sorts of environmental ruptures, fast and slow, that now shape the region. The chapters ask how we might analyze this moment of rupture and risk. How do we think about disasters that seem to occur in…
"In this modern era of global environmental crisis, Sing Chew provides a convincing analysis of the recurring human and environmental crises identified as Dark Ages. In this, his second of a three-volume series concerning world ecological degradation, Chew reviews the past 5,000…
Human settlement of the coastal zone -- Coastal tectonics and hazards -- Tropical cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons -- Storms, waves, coastal erosion and shoreline retreat -- Climate change and sea-level rise "Almost half of the planet's population now lives in the coastal zone…
Contributed articles with reference to India.
"Natural Disasters in a Global Environment is a transnational, global and environmental history of natural and man-made disasters. Detailed case studies of past and present events are presented in a historical narrative, making use of the most recent scholarship. - Examines a ra…