Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

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FrontCover; Hazards, Risks, andDisasters in Society; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; EditorialForeword; 1.2 CRITICAL PROCESSES AND OUTCOMES OF HAZARDS, RISKS, AND DISASTERS IN SOCIETY; 1.3 COMPONENTS OF THIS BOOK; REFERENCES; Section 1 Perspectives on People-Centred Prevention and Response to Natural Hazard; Section 2 Hazards in Social, Technological and Political-Economic Change; Chapter 3 -- Disastrous Disasters: A Polemic on Capitalism, Climate Change, and Humanitarianism; 3.6 THESIS 6: THE NGOS AS AN OLIGOPOLY.

3.7 THESIS 7: A MISTAKEN BELIEF EXISTS THAT FIRST RESPONDERS, BE THEY EITHER EMERGENCY SERVICES OR HUMANITARIAN AGENCIES, PROMO ...3.8 TOWARD A CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 4 -- Disaster Risk Governance: Evolution and Influences; 4.4 OUTWARD DISASTER RISK GOVERNANCE: MAINSTREAMING; 6.4 SUBALTERN AGENCY AND WOMEN WIDOWED IN THE TSUNAMI OF DECEMBER 2003 IN INDIA; 22.4 IMPROVED DEALING WITH HAZARDS, RISKS, AND DISASTERS IN SOCIETY; REFERENCES; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 5 -- Developing Sustainable Capacity for Disaster Risk Reduction in Southern Africa.

Chapter 7 -- Reactive to Proactive to Reflective Disaster Responses: Introducing Critical Reflective Practices in Disaster R ...Chapter 12 -- Everyday Practices and Symbolic Forms of Resistance: Adapting to Environmental Change in Coastal Louisiana; Chapter 16 -- Self-Care in Bangladesh: Local Level Resilience and Risk Reduction; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; Chapter 8 -- Vulnerability, Coping and Loss and Damage from Climate Events; 8.7 LOSS AND DAMAGE; Chapter 9 -- Flood Shelters in Bangladesh: Some Issues From the User's Perspective.

Chapter 6 -- Understanding Rights-Based Approach in Disasters: A Case for Affirming Human DignityChapter 10 -- Cyber-Security Hazards in Society; Chapter 14 -- Double Disaster: Disaster through a Gender Lens; 10.4 DEFINITION OF TERMS-CYBER-SECURITY, HAZARDS, AND SOCIETY; 10.7 BACKDROP; 10.20 SUMMARY; 10.21 CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 11 -- Natural Disasters and Violent Conflicts; 12.1 METHODOLOGY; 12.7 "RESTORATION" INSTEAD OF "RELOCATION"; Chapter 13 -- Political Responses to Emergencies; Chapter 21 -- View of Abrahamic Religions on Natural Disaster Risk Reduction.

7.4 THE USEFULNESS OF REFLECTIVE RESPONSE IN DRR13.4 DICTATORSHIP, DEMOCRACY, AND DISASTERS; 13.7 FORGIVENESS MONEY; 14.7 CONCLUDING COMMENTS; Section 3 Cross-Disciplinary and Non-Mainstream Futures of Dealing with Hazards, Risks and Disasters in Society; Chapter 15 -- Disaster Risk Reduction in the Shadow of the Law; 15.3 THE COMMON LAW; REFERENCES; 16.7 SELF-CARE AS A LOW-COST, MANIFOLD STRATEGY; Chapter 17 -- Culture: The Crucial Factor in Hazard, Risk, and Disaster Recovery: The Anthropological Perspective; 17.1 INTRODUCTION.

Chapter 2 -- Against the Drive for Institutionalization: Two Decades of Disaster Volunteers in Japan.

Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society provides analyses of environmentally related catastrophes within society in historical, political and economic contexts. Personal and corporate culture mediates how people may become more vulnerable or resilient to hazard exposure. Societies that strengthen themselves, or are strengthened, mitigate decline and resultant further exposure to what are largely human induced risks of environmental, social and economic degradation. This book outlines why it is important to explore in more depth the relationships between environmental hazards, risk and disast.