The Routledge handbook of hazards and distaster risk reduction / [edited by] Ben Wisner, J.C. Gaillard, and Ilan Kelman.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 794-857) and index.

Challenging risk --Framing disaster : theories and stories seeking to understand hazards, vulnerability and risk--Historical concepts of disasters and risks--Politics : power and disasters--Human rights and disaster--Violent conflict, natural hazards and disaster--Culture, hazard and disaster--Knowledge and disaster risk reduction--Religious interpretations of disaster--Hazards and disasters represented in film--Hazards and disasters represented in music--Hazards, risk and urbanisation--Disaster risk and sustainable development--Data sources on hazards--Tools for identifying hazards--Hazard, risk and climate change--Coastal storm--Thunderstorm and tornado--Flood--Drought--Extreme heat and cold--Wildfire--Landslide and other mass movements--Earthquake--Tsunami--Volcanic eruption--Soil erosion and contamination-human epidemic--Livestock epidemic--Plant disease, pests and erosion of biodiversity--Hazards from space--Disability and disaster--Gender, sexuality and disaster--Children, youth and disaster--Elderly people and disaster--Caste, ethnicity, religious affiliation and disaster--Early warning principles and systems--Prepardedness, warning and evacuation--Emergency management principles--From damage and needs assessments to relief--Health and disaster--Food security and disaster--Settlement and shelter reconstruction--Psyco-social recovery--Socio-economic recovery--International planning systems for disaster--National planning and disaster--Local government and disaster--Urban and regional planning and disaster--Financial mechanisms for disaster risk--Economic development policy and disaster risk--Protection of infrastructure--Social protection and disaster--Livlihood protection and support for disaster--Community action and disaster--Civil society and disaster--University research's role in reducing disaster risk--Education and disaster--Media, communication and disasters--Participatory action research and disaster risk--Challenging risk - has the left foot stepped forward?