Responses to Disasters and Climate Change

Introduction

Part I: Methodology, Policy, and Early Warning Systems

Methodological Strategies and Early Warning Systems

Chapter 1: Vulnerability and Resilience to Climate Change in a Rural Coastal Community

Katherine J. Johnson, Brian Needelman, and Michael Paolisso

Chapter 2: The story of Rising Voices: facilitating collaboration between Indigenous and Western ways of knowing

Julie Maldonado, Heather Lazrus, Shiloh-Kay Bennett, Karletta Chief, Carla May Dhillon, Bob Gough, Linda Kruger, Jeff Morisette, Stefan Petrovic, and Kyle Powys Whyte

Chapter 3: Youth based learning in disaster risk reduction education: barriers and bridges to promote resilience

Victor Marchezini and Rachel Trajber

Chapter 4: Household Response to Flash Flooding in the United States and India: A Comparative Study of the 2013 Colorado and Uttarakhand Disasters

Hao-Che Wu, Sudha Arlikatti, Andrew J. Prelog, and Clayton Wukich

Chapter 5: Traditional and Contemporary Social Safety Nets in Rural Mozambique

Miriam S. Chaiken

Policy, Evaluation, and "Best Practice" Models

Chapter 6: Accessing Disaster Recovery Resource Information: Reliance on Social Capital in the Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy

Jason D. Rivera

Chapter 7: Lessons Learned from Evaluating a Leadership Development Initiative to Foster Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation, and Resilience

Mary Ann Castle, Norma Tan, James A. LaGro, Jr.

Chapter 8: Let's Talk Oil Spill Risk: Lessons Learned from Coastal Communities in British Columbia, Canada

Shona VZ de Jong

Chapter 9: Imagining Culture: the Politics of Culturally Sensitive Reconstruction and Resilience-Building in Post-Wenchuan Earthquake China

Qiaoyun Zhang and Roberto E. Barrios

Chapter 10: The Shared Vulnerability and Resiliency of the Fukushima Animals and their Rescuers

Seven Mattes

Part II: ImpactS ON Resilience and Vulnerability

Food Security and Livelihoods

Chapter 11: Understanding Child Nutrition Preservation After an Extreme Weather Event Disaster: Lessons from Tropical Storm Ketsana and Typhoon Parma (2009) in the Philippines

Erlidia F. Llamas-Clark and Cathy Banwell

Chapter 12: Food insecurity and health disparity synergisms: Reframing a praxis of anthropology and public health for displaced populations in the United States

Preety Gadhoke and Barrett P. Brenton

Chapter 13: The Dynamics of Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in Southern Ethiopia

Logan Cochrane and Yishak Gecho

Chapter 14: The Production of Material Goods as Resilience Adaptation by Impelled Migrants in Malawi

Michele Companion

Gender and Social Inequality

Chapter 15: Gender Dimensions in Disaster Management: Implications for Coastal Aquaculture and Fishing Communities in the Philippines

Morgan Chow, Lori A. Cramer, and Hillary Egna

Chapter 16: Women's Leadership in a Texas Forest Fire and Recovery: How Gender Roles and Assumptions Empower and Constrain Women and Men Post-Disaster in a Rural Southern Town

Josephine Nummi and Kathryn Henderson

Chapter 17: Gender dynamics and disasters in Zimbabwe: a case of Tokwe Mukosi flooding

Catherine Bwerinofa and Manase Kudzai Chiweshe

Part III: Community-Based Factors That Impact Resilience and Vulnerability

Chapter 18: Vulnerability and Tourism Development: Fostering the Capacity of Resilience in the Context of Climate Change

Sara E. Alexander

Chapter 19: Why Isn't There a Plan? Community Vulnerability and Resilience in then Latrobe Valley's Open Cut Coal Mine Town

Michelle Duffy, Pamela Wood, Sue Whyte, Susan Yell, and Matthew Carroll

Chapter 20: Best Family Rwanda: a Case Study on Religious Sources of Resilience

Sharon Kim and David Kim

Chapter 21: Grassroots and Guerrillas: Radical and Insurgent Responses for Community Resilience

Natalie Osborn, Deanna Grant-Smith, Edward Morgan

Chapter 22: "Prepper" as Resilient Citizen: What Preppers Can Teach Us About Surviving Disasters

Chad Huddleston

Chapter 23: All the Years Combine: The Expansion and Contraction of Time and Memory in Disaster Response

A.J. Faas