Overview
- Covers diverse examples from Australia and the Asia Pacific region
- Focuses on social, financial, cultural, and mental health implications of complex disasters
- Highlights indigenous perspectives and adaptation responses
Part of the book series: Disaster Risk, Resilience, Reconstruction and Recovery (DRRR)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introducing the Concepts
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Cascading Disasters and Risks
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Front Matter
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Protracted Disasters and their Impacts on Recovery
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Keywords
- Disaster governance
- Disaster policy and planning
- Community resilience before disasters
- Community resilience during disasters
- Community resilience after disasters
- Community based disaster risk reduction
- Indigenous governance for disaster risk reduction
- Local governance for disaster risk reduction
- Climate change adaptation
About this book
This Edited book introduces the concept of complex disasters and considers both disaster risks and impacts across the disaster management spectrum – Prevention – Preparation – Response and Recovery. Three types of complex disasters are analysed – ‘Compound’, ‘Cascading’ and ‘Protracted’.
Case studies include hazards from fires, through to floods, sea level rise and typhoons are explored through case studies from Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Each is written by scholars and/or practitioners with acknowledged expertise in the field and most chapters are based on detailed case studies of ongoing or recent research projects.
The book will be useful to researchers in climate, disaster, or environmental and economic policy, disaster risk reduction, and climate change studies, and practitioners and policy makers applying disaster theory and knowledge into policy and decision-making.
Reviews
This is an important, timely and provocative book! The authors explore the contested terrain of risk and disaster, challenging the reader through diverse, and at times disruptive, perspectives and analysis. Unusually for material on this subject, I found the book very accessible. It deserves to be widely read and I expect it to have significant influence on thinking and policy. The volume is also a wonderful tribute to Professor Helen James.
-- Emeritus Professor John Handmer, FASSA, Senior Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Vienna
Disasters can compound, cascade and linger. They are increasingly complex as networks grow in their interdependencies, settlements expand, inequality worsens, and climate change intensifies severe weather. Such complexities pose additional challenges to communities as they attempt to prevent, prepare, respond and recover. Exploration of the complexity of disasters in a multi-hazard context is crucial to improving future disaster resilience. The book provides an important contribution to an area of growing academic interest. Insights address both theoretical and practical aspects of disaster complexity. Its many case studies provide an opportunity for readers to gain an appreciation of the challenges that increasing complexity poses and how they are being addressed. For policymakers the book provides evidence of the need to invest in disaster resilience and adaptation to address the growing threats posed by complex disasters. It also provides relevant arguments as to how disaster risk is shaped and how future consideration of complex disasters at local to global levels is vital to ensuring safe and sustainable communities
- Andrew Gissing, Fellow at Macquarie University and General Manager, Risk Frontiers, Sydney, Australia
The authoring of complex disasters: compound, cascading, and protracted is both timely and essential. Timely because Australia as well as many other parts of the world are having lived experiences of complex disasters, and essential because nations can no longer ignore their compounding, cascading, and protracted effects on their communities and the systems that help both create and support them. The authors of the various chapters have done an excellent job in bringing together existing academic and practical insights about systems thinking in disasters as well as introducing us to new insights about how to prepare for a future of greater ambiguity, complexity, and uncertainty. With the real potential for exponentially increasing levels of disaster impact driven by climate change versus only incremental levels of capability improvement to manage their effects, it is critical that governments, the private and non-government sectors, and communities embrace a more holistic, long-term, and systemic approach to all aspects of disaster management. As recent lived experience demonstrates, treating disasters as one-off events and seeking to manage their effects through the traditional approach of prevention, preparedness, response and recovery no longer works and cannot continue to be the basis in which we address complex disasters into the future. This book makes a significant contribution in helping policy makers, academics, strategists, operational leaders as well as anyone else who is concerned about the current and future challenges in disaster risk management to think differently about disasters. I commend the authors for their dedication and commitment to this important topic and encourage all who read this book to incorporate its insights into all aspects of disaster management practice. In doing so, we can achieve real and sustainable change and help secure a safer and more sustainable world.
- Mark Crosweller, AFMS, former Director-General Emergency Management Australia and Director at Ethical Intelligence, Canberra, Australia
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Anna Lukasiewicz researches topics around the distribution of natural resources; water governance; disaster justice and natural hazard management. She works at the interface of justice and natural resource management.
Tayanah O’Donnell is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Australian National University and Partner with Deloitte, climate and sustainability. Her research interests include: climate and environmental regulation and policy, managed retreat, disaster resilience and climate change adaptation. She was previously a senior executive at the Australian Academy of Science.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Complex Disasters
Book Subtitle: Compounding, Cascading, and Protracted
Editors: Anna Lukasiewicz, Tayanah O’Donnell
Series Title: Disaster Risk, Resilience, Reconstruction and Recovery
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2428-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-2427-9Published: 21 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-2430-9Published: 22 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-2428-6Published: 20 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-5660
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5679
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 394
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Development Studies, Earth Sciences, general, Environment, general, Geography, general