{"id":17973,"date":"2022-09-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=17973"},"modified":"2025-04-08T09:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T09:20:49","slug":"disasters-risks-responses-and-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/disasters-risks-responses-and-recovery","title":{"rendered":"Disasters, Risks, Responses, and Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cAs disasters are increasing in number and intensity, so too will be the need for reconstruction\u2026\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So reads a line from the blurb of Making Things Happen<\/a><\/strong>, Jane Murphy Thomas’ account of post-earthquake reconstruction in Pakistan. And, sadly, how prescient it was, for her book was published just weeks before the same nation experienced a new disaster, the terrible flooding that left more than 10% of it underwater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here we have gathered our most recent volumes on the subject of disaster in its many awful forms (earthquakes, typhoons, tsunamis, nuclear accidents, chemical spills, and more), and on our approaches to risk management, and the many challenges of post-disaster reconstruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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MAKING THINGS HAPPEN<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jane Murphy Thomas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Explores the sociocultural aspects of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction. READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GOING FORWARD BY LOOKING BACK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Felix Riede & Payson Sheets<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of disasters and human responses to them. READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DISASTER UPON DISASTER<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Susanna M. Hoffman & Roberto E. Barrios<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Illuminates the numerous disjunctions between academic and expert knowledge and the real-world policies and practices of agencies working in the field, and advances solutions for improved outcomes. READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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CONSTRUCTING RISK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen O. Bender<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Examines the vulnerability of infrastructure to natural hazard events and proposes new development approaches. READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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FAULT LINES<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giacomo Parrinello<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Examines the history of Messina, Italy, and the Belice Valley, Sicily, before and after the earthquakes that largely destroyed them (1908 and 1968 respectively) and the developments that preceded the disasters and the urbanism that followed. READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CONTEXTUALIZING DISASTER<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Gregory V. Button & Mark Schuller<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Offers a comparative analysis of six recent “highly visible” disasters and several slow-burning, “hidden,” crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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JOURNALS: BERGHAHN OPEN ANTHRO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollution, Health, and Disaster: Emerging Contributions in Ethnographic Research<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexa S. Dietrich (Vol. 12)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY\/ANTHROPOLOGIE SOCIALE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The potential of intangible loss: Reassembling heritage and reconstructing the social in post\u2010disaster Japan<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Littlejohn (Vol. 12)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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OPEN ACCESS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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REGIONS AND COHESION<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recognition of factors that promote resilience to hurricanes<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adolfo Lucero \u00c1lvarez, Columba Rodr\u00edguez Alviso, Oscar Frausto Mart\u00ednez, Jos\u00e9 Luis Aparicio L\u00f3pez, Alejandro D\u00edaz Garay, and Maximino Reyes Uma\u00f1a<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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