Vulnerability, Risks, and Complexity: Impacts of Global Change on Human Habitats (Advances in People-Environment Studies)

Sigrun Kabisch; Anna Kunath; Petra Schweizer-Ries; Annett Steinfuehrer

ISBN 10: 088937435X / ISBN 13: 9780889374355

Published by Hogrefe Publishing, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Vulnerability, Risks, and Complexity: Impacts of Global Change on Human Habitats (Advances in People-Environment Studies)
• Publisher: Hogrefe Publishing
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 088937435X
• ISBN 13: 9780889374355
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This volume offers state of the art research on the interrelations between the social, the built, and the natural environment. It encompasses papers investigating human habitats in a variety of settlement structures within several natural settings that are affected by negative impacts of extreme weather events, natural hazards, infectious diseases, contaminations, or crime. Further, it provides empirical case studies describing ways to strengthen environmentally-sound behavior and how people behave in very specific living conditions, e.g. in post-disaster settlements. The focus of the book is on the necessity of studying vulnerability, risks, and complexity as expressions of the major impacts of global change on human habitats. These include not only climate and hazard impacts but also new socio-demographic trends and regional economic developments influencing people's quality of life and their capacities to cope with global change.

The book will be useful to scholars in cross-cutting areas of urban, hazard, planning, governance and sustainability research in strong relation to socio-psychological perspectives. The readers benefit from new theoretical as well as empirically based research findings in the emerging field of social-science vulnerability studies.

About the Author

Sigrun Kabisch, Prof. Dr., head of the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig (Germany), professor for Urban Geography at the University of Leipzig. Anna Kunath, research assistant at the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig (Germany). Petra Schweizer-Ries, Prof. Dr., junior professor in Environmental Psychology at the University of Magdeburg (Germany), professor in Environmental Psychology at the Saarland University, and professor in Sustainability Science at the University of Applied Science, Bochum (Germany). Annett Steinfuhrer, Dr., researcher at the Institute of Rural Studies at the Johann Heinrich von Thunen Institute (vTI), Braunschweig/Brunswick (Germany).