From Hazard to Disaster

The Vulnerability of People in South Asia

Pradeep Kumar Parida (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
9781041273585 (ISBN)

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This volume explores the complex relationships between hazard, vulnerability and disaster for steering the challenges posed by disaster. Divergent to popular conviction and moving beyond technocratic approach, this book argues that natural hazards alone do not result in disasters. When they intersect with the vulnerability of vulnerable people, these hazards turn into disastrous events. Mostly depending on qualitative and comparative investigation, the book contends that various people – men and women, young and old, wealthy and poor as well as people of different social identities, encounter diverse outcomes confronting the same hazard. While transmuting hazards to disaster, social vulnerability plays a crucial role in determining resilience to natural hazards. The main objective of this book is to understand why and how disasters occur as it helps in constructing plans to address their root causes and identifying long-term solutions. The book aims to augment the voices of those vulnerable people who are most at risk from disasters. Although the book emphasizes people’s vulnerability at the centre of disaster and few countries in South Asia, the implications can be realistic across a variety of disaster settings in diverse social contexts. Posing an understanding of social construction of disasters in the context of the South Asia, this book will be of interest to academicians in the fields of Disaster Studies, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology, History, Economics, International Development Studies and Governance Studies, as well as policy makers. It will also be an invaluable reading for policy makers, practitioners, academicians, development planners, and all those interested in understanding the complexity, and addressing the challenges of making South Asia a disaster-resilient region.

Pradeep Kumar Parida is Professor of Sociology at Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India. He has contributed extensively to Sociology of Disasters with publications appearing in various international and national Journals. He has been in the field of academics for the last 27 years and developed keen interest in Sociology of Development and Sociology of Disasters, importantly in the social dimensions of environmental risks and hazards. He is the editor of the book Natural Disaster and Women: The Gendered Perspective.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Natural Hazard and People’s Vulnerability to Disaster in South Asia

Chapter 2: Vulnerability Matters: The Political Economy of the Gorkha Earthquake, Nepal

Chapter 3: Living on the Margins: The Tragedy of Deluges, Development and Human Vulnerability

Chapter 4: Unlocking the Pakistan Earthquake of 2005 through the Lens of Vulnerability

Chapter 5: Super Cyclone and the Dynamics of Evacuation Behaviour in India

Chapter 6: Interrogating the Gendered Vulnerability to Tsunami Disaster in Sri Lanka

Chapter 7: A Study of Mental Health Consequences of Cyclone ‘Thane’, India

Chapter 8: The Structural Vulnerability of Women with Disabilities to Disaster

Chapter 9: Social Capital as Catalyst for Strengthening Disaster Risk Reduction

Chapter 10: Conclusion: Strengthening Local Community Resilience in Disaster Risk Reduction

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.4.2026
Zusatzinfo	9 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-13	9781041273585 / 9781041273585
Zustand	Neuware