International Review of Environmental History: Volume 9, Issue 1, 2023
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Description
Inspired by recent scholarship on disaster history and situated within the broader field of environmental history, this special issue highlights structural factors that have exacerbated the effects of extreme weather and explores how states and societies have responded and adapted (or not) during and after disasters. The five case studies all focus on the Indian Ocean World (IOW), a macro-region stretching from eastern Africa to East Asia and Southeast Asia, and align chronologically with the so-called Anthropocene, the period during which the industrial Global North began to leave its indelible imprint on the world’s climatic systems. They build on a small but growing scholarship that looks at historical disasters and disaster responses within the IOW, arguing collectively for the application of historical methodologies in approaching the challenge of extreme weather now and in the future.
Details
- ISSN (print):
- 2205-3204
- ISSN (online):
- 2205-3212
- Publication date:
- Jul 2023
- Imprint:
- ANU Press
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/IREH.09.01.2023
- Journal:
- International Review of Environmental History
- Disciplines:
- Arts & Humanities: History; Science: Environmental Sciences
- Countries:
- World
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- Introduction (PDF, 0.1MB) – James Beattie doi
Part I: Research article
- The changing practices of sacred forests in Njombe, Tanzania: Colonial encounters 1880s–1961 (PDF, 0.7MB) – Edward Simon Mgaya doi
Part II: Special issue: Vulnerability to climatic and environmental disaster and change in the Indian Ocean World
- Vulnerability to climatic and environmental disaster and change in the Indian Ocean World (PDF, 0.1MB) – Philip Gooding, Fiona Williamson and Julie Babin doi
- Atmosphere, environment, society: The typhoon vulnerability nexus in early twentieth-century Hong Kong (PDF, 0.9MB) – Fiona Williamson doi
- Resilience and vulnerability to drought in Unyanyembe (west-central Tanzania) in the 1830s and 1870s–90s (PDF, 0.8MB) – Philip Gooding, Cecile Dai, Riccardo Mercatali and Daniele Battistelli doi
- Atoll engineering in the Maldives: Shifting priorities in crafting archipelagic landscapes (PDF, 4.1MB) – Boris Wille doi
- The impact of typhoons and rainfall on infrastructure project allocations and prioritisation in six localities of Northern Albay, Philippines, 2001–19 (PDF, 1.3MB) – Marco Stefan B. Lagman doi
- A deeper history of the ‘world’s largest dead zone’ in the Gulf of Oman (PDF, 0.2MB) – Scott T. Erich doi
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