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Ch. 1 : Causes of disasters. Climate change may increase natural disasters worldwide / World Health Organization -- Famine in Africa is the result of a natural disaster / Alhagie Jobe -- Famine in Africa is caused by humans, not nature / Thomas Keneally -- In the United States, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the result of industrial mistakes / National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling -- A British analyst examines the causes of the 9/11 disaster in the United States / Peter Bergen -- ch. 2 : Disasters, social issues, and politics. Poverty magnifies the impact of a disaster / Dan Brook -- Natural disasters and women / Lorena Aguilar -- Women survivors of the Bhopal disaster in India claim their rights / Jashodhara Dasgupta -- Natural disasters can cause political instability and conflict / Elizabeth Ferris -- Politics negatively affected Cyclone Nargis disaster relief in Myanmar / Donald M. Seekins -- Haiti's earthquake disaster is exacerbated by politics and poverty / Andrew Apter -- ch. 3 : Disaster preparedness. Better global preparedness for natural disasters would save lives / Bill McGuire, as told to Robin McKie -- Counting the cost of calamities / The Economist -- Early warning is insufficient preparation for famines in Africa / Jeeyon Janet Kim and Debarati Guhr-Sapir -- Without effective prevention, natural hazards become human-made disasters / The World Bank -- Lack of preparation for floods in Brazil leads to many deaths / Natalia Viana -- Japan was unprepared for the 2011 earthquake and tsunami / Jun Hongo -- In the United States, transportation planners were not prepared for Hurricane Katrina / Todd Litman -- ch. 4 : Disaster response and aftermath. Disease often follows natural disasters / CBC News -- The aftermath of the Japanese tsunami triggers a potential United States environmental disaster / Becky Bohrer -- Britain proposes a new way of responding to disasters / Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson -- The World Bank responds effectively to the Haiti earthquake / Independent Evaluation Group -- The International Monetary Fund's response endangers Haiti's recovery / Bretton Woods Project -- Rwanda cuts disaster risk at the site of a potential explosion / Xan Rice -- China effectively responds to disasters but must improve risk reduction / Zhang Qingfeng and Melissa Howell Alipalo

This Element explores the history of urban disasters around the globe over the last three-hundred years. It introduces the reader to central concepts that help define the study of disasters, then moves on to explore the relationship between cities and disasters including earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, and epidemics. It asks, for example: How have cities responded in times of crisis, and what practices, infrastructures, and/or institutions have they introduced to prevent disasters from reoccurring? Who suffers most when urban disasters strike, and why? In what ways do catastrophes change cities? How, if at all, are cities unique from the countryside? To answer these questions and more, this concise history looks at a series of case studies from the eighteenth century through to COVID-19. The Element concludes with a brief look at the ongoing effects of climate change and the future of cities

What is a disaster? -- Rome's disasters -- The disaster experience -- Dealing with the aftermath -- Thinking about disaster -- A culture of risk -- Narratives of disaster -- Inflicting catastrophe -- The psychological impact -- Roman disasters in context