Hazards, risks, and disasters in society

1. Introduction: hazards, risks and disasters in society Section 1: Perspectives on people centred prevention and response to natural hazards 2. Against the drive for institutionalization: two decades of disaster volunteers in Japan 3. Disastrous disasters: a polemic on capitalism, climate change and humanitarianism 4. Disaster risk governance: evolution and influences 5. Developing sustainable capacity for disaster risk reduction in Southern Africa in disasters: a case for affirming human dignity 6. Reactive to pro-active to reflective disaster responses: introducing critical reflective practices in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Section 2: Hazards in social, technological and political-economic change 7. Vulnerability, coping and loss and damage from climate events 8. Flood shelters in Bangladesh: some issues from the users’ perspective 9. Natural disasters and violent conflicts 10. Everyday practices and symbolic forms of resistance: adapting to environmental change in coastal Louisiana 11. Political responses to emergencies 12. Double disaster: disaster through a gender lens Section 3: Cross-disciplinary and non-mainstream futures of dealing with hazards, risks and disasters in society 13. Disaster risk reduction in the shadow of the law 14. Self-care in Bangladesh: local level resilience and risk reduction 15. Culture: the crucial factor in hazard, risk and disaster recovery – the anthropological perspective 16. Risk, resilience and readiness: developing an all-hazards perspective 17. Interpretative frameworks of disaster in society close up 18. Therapeutic communities in the context of disaster 19. View of Abrahamic religions on natural disaster risk reduction 20. Conclusion: hazards, risks and disasters in society