Responses to disasters and climate change : understanding vulnerability and fostering resilience / edited by Michele Companion and Miriam S. Chaiken.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Vulnerability and resilience to climate change in a rural coastal community / Katherine J. Johnson, Brian A. Needelman, and Michael Paolisso -- 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 -- Youth-based learning in disaster risk reduction education : barriers and bridges to promote resilience / Victor Marchezini and Rachel Trajber -- 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 Prelog, and Clayton Wukich -- Traditional and contemporary social safety nets in rural Mozambique / Miriam S. Chaiken -- Assessing disaster recovery resource information : reliance on social capital in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy / Jason D. Rivera -- Lessons learned from evaluating a capacity-building initiative to foster climate change adaptation, mitigation, and resilience / Mary Ann Castle, Norma Tan, and James LaGro, Jr. -- Let's talk oil spill risk : lessons learned from coastal communities in British Columbia, Canada / Shona V.Z. de Jong -- Imagining culture : the politics of culturally sesitive reconstruction and resilience building in post-Wenchuan earthquake China / Qiaoyun Zhang and Roberto E. Barrios -- The shared vulnerability and resiliency of the Fukishima animals and their rescuers / Seven Mattes -- 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 -- 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 -- The dynamics of vulnerability and adaptive capacity in Southern Ethiopia / Logan Cochrane and Yishak Gecho -- The production of material goods as resilience adaptation by impelled migrants in Malawi / Michèle Companion -- Gender dimensions in disaster management : implications for coastal aquaculture and fishing communities in the Philippines / Morgan Chow, Lori A. Cramer, and Hillary Egna -- Women's leadership in Texas forest fires and recovery : how gender roles and assumptions empower and constrain women and men postdisaster in a rural southern town / Josephine Nummi and Kathryn Henderson -- Gender dynamics and disasters in Zimbabwe : a case of Tokwe Mukosi flooding / Catherine Bwerinofa and Manase Kudzai Chiweshe -- Vulnerability and tourism development : fostering the capacity of resilience in the context of climate change / Sara E. Alexander -- Why isn't there a plan? community vulnerability and resilience in the Latrobe Valley's open cut coal mine town / Michelle Duffy, Pamela Wood, Sue whyte, Susan Yell, and Matthew Carroll -- Best family Rwanda : a case study on religious sources of resilience / Sharon Kim and David Kim -- Grassroots and guerrillas : radical and insurgent responses for community resilience / Nathalie Osborne, Deanna Grant-Smith, and Edward Morgan -- "Prepper" as reslient citizen : what preppers can teach us about surviving disasters / Chad Huddleston -- All the years combine : the expansion and contraction of time and memory in disaster response / A.J. Faas.

"As the global climate shifts, communities are faced with a myriad of mitigation and adaptation challenges. These highlight the political, cultural, economic, social, and physical vulnerability of social groups, communities, families, and individuals. They also foster resilience and creative responses. Research in hazard management, humanitarian response, food security programming, and other areas seeks to identify and understand factors that create vulnerability and strategies that enhance resilience at all levels of social organization. This book uses case studies from around the globe to demonstrate ways that communities have fostered resilience to mitigate the impacts of climate change" -- From the publisher.