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  • Disaster by Choice

    How our actions turn natural hazards into catastrophes

    by Ilan Kelman ...
    An earthquake shatters Haiti and a hurricane slices through Texas. We hear that nature runs rampant, seeking to destroy us through these 'natural disasters'. Science recounts a different story, however: disasters are not the consequence of natural causes; they are the consequence of human choices and decisions. We put ourselves in harm's way; we fail to take measures which we know would prevent ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Reflecting on Ben Wisner’s Contributions to Scholarship and Scholars

    The Benschrift

    Edited by Ben Wisner, JC Gaillard, Ilan Kelman ...
    This book is a festschrift in tribute to Ben Wisner’s contributions to disaster studies and adjacent fields of scholarship such as political ecology, development and sustainability.This festschrift for Ben, and so The Benschrift, revitalises, promotes and critiques a selection of six foundational articles that span Ben’s 50-year career. Each article is reproduced integrally and followed by a ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Environmental Hazards

    Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster

    by Keith Smith, Carina J. Fearnley, Deborah Dixon, Deanne K. Bird, Ilan Kelman ...
    The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century globally. It integrates cutting-edge materials to provide an interdisciplinary approach to environmental hazards and their management, illustrating how natural and human systems interact to place ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Disaster Management

    International Lessons in Risk Reduction, Response and Recovery

    Edited by Alejandro Lopez-Carresi, Maureen Fordham, Ben Wisner, Ilan Kelman, Jc Gaillard ...
    There is a perennial gap between theory and practice, between academia and active professionals in the field of disaster management. This gap means that valuable lessons are not learned and people die or suffer as a result. This book opens a dialogue between theory and practice. It offers vital lessons to practitioners from scholarship on natural hazards, disaster risk management and reduction and ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Disaster Prevention

    Edited by Ilan Kelman ...
    Series series Routledge Recommends
    Leading editors have curated collections of important Routledge research in ebook form to share recommended paths to understanding cutting-edge topics.In this book Ilan Kelman presents his guide to the must-read research on the subject of Disaster Prevention. ... Read more

    $41.95 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation

    Edited by Ilan Kelman, Jessica Mercer, JC Gaillard ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation aims to provide an overview and critique of the current state of knowledge, policy, and practice, encouraging engagement, and reflection on bringing the two sectors together. This long-awaited and welcomed volume makes a compelling case that a common research agenda and a series of practical policies and policy ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Arctic Triumph

    Northern Innovation and Persistence

    Edited by Nikolas Sellheim, Yulia V. Zaika, Ilan Kelman ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book approaches the challenges the Arctic has faced and is facing through a lens of opportunity. Through pinpointed examples from and dealing with the Circumpolar North, the Arctic is depicted as a region where people and peoples have managed to endure despite significant challenges at hand. This book treats the ‘Arctic of disasters’ as an innovated narrative and asks how the ‘disaster pieces ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Adaptation To Climate Change: Asean And Comparative Experiences

    by Kheng Lian Koh, Robert Kibugi, Ilan Kelman, Rose-liza Eisma Osorio ...
    Adaptation to Climate Change: ASEAN and Comparative Experiences presents a dynamic and comprehensive collection of works from legal scholars around the world that delves into a relatively new frontier on legal aspects of climate change adaptation with focus on the ASEAN region, both at the regional level as well as at the national level in some ASEAN countries — such as Malaysia, Philippines, and ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • Small Island Developing States

    Vulnerability and Resilience Under Climate Change

    Edited by Stefano Moncada, Lino Briguglio, Hilary Bambrick, Ilan Kelman, Catherine Iorns, Leonard Nurse ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book explores how vulnerable and resilient communities from SIDS are affected by climate change; proposes and, where possible, evaluates adaptation activities; identifies factors capable of enhancing or inhibiting SIDS people’s long-term ability to deal with climate change; and critiques the discourses, vocabularies, and constructions around SIDS dealing with climate change. The contributions ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Climate Change Modelling for Local Adaptation in the Hindu Kush - Himalayan Region

    by Rajib Shaw ...
    Series Book 11 - Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management
    This book presents a portrait of the social advantages and limitations of climate change related modeling in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region. Physical systems modeling - such as of climate, weather, water, and soil - can be useful planning tools, and are essential to the forecasts and projections used operationally for decisions on climate and development. However, these models and their ... Read more

    $147.99 USD

  • Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

    Edited by Ben Wisner, Ilan Kelman, J.C. Gaillard ...
    The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future development of conceptual, theoretical and practical approaches as well as empirical knowledge and available tools.Organized into five ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Disaster by Choice

    How our actions turn natural hazards into catastrophes

    by Ilan Kelman ...
    Narrated by Rupert Bush ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 17 min

    An earthquake shatters Haiti and a hurricane slices through Texas. We hear that nature runs rampant, seeking to destroy us through these 'natural disasters'. Science recounts a different story, however: disasters are not the consequence of natural causes; they are the consequence of human choices and decisions. we put ourselves in harm's way; we fail to take measures which we know would prevent ... Read more

    $13.17 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook