Responses to disasters and climate change: understanding vulnerability and fostering resilience

Content: 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