Communities living with hazards / editors, David King and Alison Cottrell.

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Townsville, Qld. : Centre for Disaster Studies, James Cook University, 2007.Description: vi, 293 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:

0864437528 (pbk.)

DDC classification:

363.347 22

Partial contents:

1. What is this thing called "community" ?: An example in far north Queensland. - - 2.Government, non-government and community organisations in disasters. - - 3.Enhancing resilience and reducing vulnerability : lessons learned from past disasters. - - 4. Transport and evacuation planning. - - 5. Tourism, disasters andvulnerability. - - 6.Tourism crisis: management and recovery in tourist-reliant destinations. - - 7. Oral histories about weather hazards in northern Australia. 8. Lardil weather stories and experiences from Mornington Island. - - 9. Fire risk in Avoriginal peri-urban landscapes in northern Cape York Peninsula. 10. Bushfires at the urban-rural interface. - - 11. Living with bushfires: What do people expect ?

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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 254-281.

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