The series Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster explores how environmental, technological, and health risks are created, managed, and analyzed in different contexts. Global in scope and drawing on perspectives from multiple disciplines, volumes in the series examine the ways that planning, science, and technology are implicated in disasters. The series also engages public policy formation—including analysis of science, technology, and environmental policy as well as welfare, conflict resolution, and economic policy developments where relevant.
Series Editors:
Kim Fortun
Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
Scott Gabriel Knowles
Professor in the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Jacob A.C. Remes
Clinical Associate Professor of History, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University
Staff Editorial Contact:
Robert Lockhart, Senior Editor rlockhar@upenn.edu
Explores the ever-present experiences of risk that characterized the daily existence of individuals, communities, and societies in the late Roman worldLiving with Risk in the Late Roman World explores...
Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan
Kerry Smith
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512825374
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Japan is a place where powerful earthquakes have occurred more frequently and have caused more harm in the modern era than they have in all but a handful of other locations on the planet. In the twentieth...
As officials scrambled in 2020 to manage the spread of COVID, the reverberations of the crisis reached well beyond immediate public health concerns. The governance problems that emerged in the pandemic...
Disaster Response and Spiritual Care from 9/11 to the Climate Crisis
Joshua Moses
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812225136
Pub Date: March 2022
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
In this age of near-perpetual disaster, from the Coronavirus epidemic and mass incarceration to hurricanes and earthquakes, spiritual care has become an essential component of the disaster-response...
Edited by Howard Kunreuther, Robert J. Meyer and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812225082
Pub Date: November 2021
Format: Paperback
416 Pages
Whether man-made or naturally occurring, large-scale disasters can cause fatalities and injuries, devastate property and communities, savage the environment, impose significant financial burdens on...
This book announces the new, interdisciplinary field of critical disaster studies. Unlike most existing approaches to disaster, critical disaster studies begins with the idea that disasters are not...
Edited by Kyle Cleveland, Scott Gabriel Knowles and Ryuma Shineha
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780812252989
Pub Date: April 2021
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
It was an unlikely convergence of events. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake, the largest in Japanese memory and the fourth largest recorded in world history; a tsunami that peaked at forty meters, devastating...
Across contemporary Asia, each day dawns with a new story about living in an era of profound environmental change. Rapid transformations in the landscape, society, and technology produce new conflicts...
