Human organization: special issue on applied anthropology of risk, hazards, and disasters

Human Organization, Winter 2015, Vol. 74, No. 4:

This volume of Human Organization is dedicated to a special issue on applied anthropology of risk, hazards, and disasters. It includes articles on: (i) Applied Anthropology of Risk, Hazards, and Disasters by A.J. Faas and Roberto E. Barrios; (ii) The Construction of Vulnerability along the Zarumilla River Valley in Prehistory by Sarah Taylor; (iii) Procedural Vulnerability and Institutional Capacity Deficits in Post-Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction: Insights from Wutai Rukai Experiences of Typhoon Morakot by Minna Hsu, Richard Howitt and Fiona Miller; (iv) How to Remember: The Interplay of Memory and Identity Formation in Post-Disaster Communities by Sunday M. Moulton; (v) A Burning Problem: Social Dynamics of Disaster Risk Reduction through Wildfire Mitigation by Susan Charnley, Melissa R. Poe, Alan A. Ager, Thomas A. Spies, Emily K. Platt and Keith A. Olsen; (vi) Migration or Forced Displacement?: The Complex Choices of Climate Change and Disaster Migrants in Shishmaref, Alaska and Nanumea, Tuvalu by Elizabeth Marino and Heather Lazrus; (vii) Social Networks of Help-Seeking in Different Types of Disaster Responses to the 2008 Mississippi River Floods by David G. Casagrande, Heather McIlvaine-Newsad and Eric C. Jones; (viii) The Biopolitics of Disaster: Power, Discourses, and Practices by Victor Marchezini.

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