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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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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
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.Keywords
- Impact of disasters
- Demograhic change
- Regional effects of disasters
- Population dynamics
- Environmental change
- Open access
- climate change
Editors and Affiliations
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Geographical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Dávid Karácsonyi
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Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia
Andrew Taylor
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Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Askja, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Deanne Bird
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Demography of Disasters
Book Subtitle: Impacts for Population and Place
Editors: Dávid Karácsonyi, Andrew Taylor, Deanne Bird
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49920-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49919-8Published: 18 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49922-8Published: 19 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49920-4Published: 17 September 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 268
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour
Topics: Population and Demography, Human Geography, Environmental Sciences, Statistics in Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Education, Behavorial Sciences, Public Policy, Population Economics, Natural Hazards