Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 30 Issue 1
Strapline:
An International JournalTable of contents - Special Issue: Disaster, State and Science: Historical Narratives of Climatic Extremes and Climate Change in East Asia and the Pacific
Guest Editors: Fiona Williamson
A historical approach to understanding governance of extreme urban heat in Fukuoka, Japan
Leslie MabonThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to emergent understandings in research into urban climate change-related disasters (such as extreme heat), which recognise that…
Diluvial nation: building imperial Japan through floods
Lisa YoshikawaThis article assesses the development of flood relief and recovery, and their narratives, as political sites for the central and local governments to negotiate each other's…
Typhoon disaster politics in pre-1945 Asia: three case studies
Gerry van KlinkenThis paper focuses on the adaptations societies make to climate-related disasters. How they learnt from them in the past should indicate how they will respond in the more…
Southern skies: Australian atmospheric research and global climate change
Ruth A. MorganThe purpose of this paper is to examine the role of Australian climate scientists in advancing the state of knowledge about the causes and mechanisms of climatic change and…
Testing the precautionary argument after the Lucky Dragon incident
Matthias DörriesThis paper uses a historical case study, the controversy over the possibility of climatic extremes caused by hydrogen bomb tests on Pacific Ocean atolls during the 1950s, to show…
ISSN:
0965-3562e-ISSN:
1758-6100ISSN-L:
0965-3562Online date, start – end:
1992Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr JC Gaillard
- Dr Emmanuel Raju