Complex Disasters: Compounding, Cascading, and Protracted (Hardcover, 2022)

Section 1: Introducing the concepts.- Chapter 1: The Evolution of Complex Disasters.- Chapter 2: Fire and Flood: Contextualising compound, cascading, and protracted disaster.- Chapter 3: What’s in a name? Deconstructing risk and resilience.- Chapter 4: The Nature of Climate-related Disasters in Australia.- Chapter 5: Coasts: A Battleground in Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Climate Change Adaptation.- Section 2: Compound Risks and Impacts.- Chapter 6: Ten years on: Brisbane’s compounding flood risk.- Chapter 7: Accounting for the compounding effects of climate change on coastal residents.- Chapter 8: A health geography of the compound effects of contaminated sites and extreme weather events on mental health.- Chapter 9: Living with floods in Makassar, Indonesia: a qualitative investigation of compounding and cascading risks in the context of flood-prone informal settlements.- Chapter 10: Chokepoints: the challenges of improving surveillance of emerging biological hazards across the Indo-Pacific region.- Chapter 11: The role of gardening in response to cascading disaster on peri-urban fringe of Port Vila, Vanuatu.- Section 4: Protracted Disasters and their Impacts on Recovery.- Chapter 12: Public hazard awareness for culturally and linguistically diverse communities during protracted events.- Chapter 13: Earthquakes, tsunami and climate change: customary management and disaster adaptation.- Chapter 14: Kinship as cultural citizenship in post-disaster housing reconstruction: Narratives from fisherfolk in the Philippines.- Chapter 15: The disconnections that facilitate protracted disasters: barriers to adapting to fire in the Australian landscape.- Section 5: Managing Disaster Complexity.- Chapter 16: National policy frameworks for compound, cascading and protracted disasters: learning from other policy sectors.- Chapter 17: Definition and explanation of community disaster fatigue.- Chapter 18: Enabling a collaborative research environment to meet complexities of compound, cascading and protracted disasters.- Chapter 19: Complex disasters as part of everyday life.