The Demography of Disasters
Impacts for Population and Place
Editors: Karacsonyi, David, Taylor, Andrew, Bird, Deanne (Eds.)
Free Preview- Presents contemporary cross-national studies on population impacts for and from disasters
- Puts significant focus on climate change
- With contributions by around 50 international experts
- Focuses on disasters as caused by human or society vulnerabilities
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- About this book
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This open access book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography and disasters in regions and spatially. It marks an advance in practical and theoretical insights for understanding the role of demography in planning for and mitigating impacts from disasters in developed nations.
Both slow onset (like the of loss polar ice from climate change) and sudden disasters (such as cyclones and man-made disasters) have the capacity to fundamentally change the profiles of populations at local and regional levels. Impacts vary according to the type, rapidity and magnitude of the disaster, but also according to the pre-existing population profile and its relationships to the economy and society. In all cases, the key to understanding impacts and avoiding them in the future is to understand the relationships between disasters and population change.
In most chapters in this book we compare and contrast studies from at least two cases and summarize their practical and theoretical lessons.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction: Conceptualising the Demography of Disasters
Pages 1-13
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Long-Term Mass Displacements—The Main Demographic Consequence of Nuclear Disasters?
Pages 15-48
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Estimating Migration Impacts of Wildfire: California’s 2017 North Bay Fires
Pages 49-70
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The 2010 Catastrophic Forest Fires in Russia: Consequence of Rural Depopulation?
Pages 71-79
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Disruptions and Diversions: The Demographic Consequences of Natural Disasters in Sparsely Populated Areas
Pages 81-99
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Demography of Disasters
- Book Subtitle
- Impacts for Population and Place
- Editors
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- David Karacsonyi
- Andrew Taylor
- Deanne Bird
- Copyright
- 2021
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-49920-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-49920-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-49919-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 268
- Number of Illustrations
- 6 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour
- Topics
