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

Exploration of the complexity of disasters in a multi-hazard context is crucial to improving future disaster resilience. 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.

• Andrew Gissing, Fellow at Macquarie University and General Manager, Risk Frontiers, Sydney, Australia The authoring of complex disasters: compounding, cascading, and protracted is both timely and essential. 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.

  -- Mark Crosweller AFMS, former Director-General Emergency Management, Canberra, Australia

  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'.

  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.

  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.

  Autorentext

  Dr Lukasiewicz researches topics around the distribution of natural resources (including how decision-making processes are structured and stakeholder-decision maker interactions); water governance (including water management, climate change adaptation and stakeholder engagement); and disaster justice (natural disaster management policy and management in disaster preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery), and natural hazard management (especially policy around disaster resilience). She works at the interface of justice and natural resource management. Dr O'Donnell is an Associate Professor at the Australian National University (Fenner School), and Partner with Deloitte's climate and sustainability team. Her research interests include climate regulation and policy, coastal management, climate change adaptation, government roles and responsibilities in a changing environmental law, land use planning, climate, and urban sustainability. She has published widely on these topics and in a variety of formats. She was previously a senior executive at the Australian Academy of Science, leading Future Earth Australia.

  Klappentext

  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.

  Inhalt

  Section 1: Introducing the concepts.- Chapter 1: The Evolution of Complex Disasters.- Chapter 2: Fire and Flood: Contextualising compound, cascading, and protracted disaster.- Chapter 3: What's in a name? Deconstructing risk and resilience.- Chapter 4: The Nature of Climate-related Disasters in Australia.- Chapter 5: Coasts: A Battleground in Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Climate Change Adaptation.- Section 2: Compound Risks and Impacts.- Chapter 6: Ten years on: Brisbane's compounding flood risk.- Chapter 7: Accounting for the compounding effects of climate change on coastal residents.- Chapter 8: A health geography of the compound effects of contaminated sites and extreme weather events on mental health.- Chapter 9: Living with floods in Makassar, Indonesia: a qualitative investigation of compounding and cascading risks in the context of flood-prone informal settlements.- Chapter 10: Chokepoints: the challenges of improving surveillance of emerging biological hazards across the Indo-Pacific region.- Chapter 11: The role of gardening in response to cascading disaster on peri-urban fringe of Port Vila, Vanuatu.- Section 4: Protracted Disasters and their Impacts on Recovery.- Chapter 12: Public hazard awareness for culturally and linguistically diverse communities during protracted events.- Chapter 13: Earthquakes, tsunami and climate change: customary management and disaster adaptation.- Chapter 14: Kinship as cultural citizenship in post-disaster housing reconstruction: Narratives from fisherfolk in the Philippines.- Chapter 15: The disconnections that facilitate protracted disasters: barriers to adapting to fire in the Australian landscape.- Section 5: Managing Disaster Complexity.- Chapter 16: National policy frameworks for compound, cascading and protracted disasters: learning from other policy sectors.- Chapter 17: Definition and explanation of community disaster fatigue.- Chapter 18: Enabling a collaborative research environment to meet complexities of compound, cascading and protracted disasters.- Chapter 19: Complex disasters as part of everyday life.