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Anthropologists often struggle with interpreting the extent to which human behavior during and after disasters constitute departures from pre‐existing culture, as the issue is both theoretically poignant but also pragmatically critical. When I first wrote about the concern, I offered that the extent to which disasters cause consequential cultural change is largely determined by size or magnitude of the disaster, whether the manifestations of change are scrutinized in short or long term, and whether the change occurs within the deep structures of a culture or merely surface regalia. I also touched on resistance to change. In the plenary on the issue addressed here, several anthropologists well familiar with the problematics of disaster spoke to the concern anew, and in light of seriously changing global conditions, I, too, had expanded observations to add. They pertain both to general theories of culture continuity and change and to today's altered global situation.

Introduction : defining disaster upon disaster : why risk prevention and disaster response so often fail / Susanna M. Hoffman -- Unwieldy disasters : engaging the multiple gaps and connections that make catastrophes / Roberto E. Barrios -- Advocacy and accomplishment : contrasting challenges to successful disaster risk management / Terry Jeggle -- Natural hazard events into disasters : the gaps between knowledge, policy, and practice as it affects the built environment through development / Stephen Bender -- Humanitarian response : ideals meet reality / Adam Koons -- Disaster theory versus practice? : it is a long rocky road : a practitioner's view from the ground / Jane Murphy Thomas -- Slow-onset disaster : climate change and the gaps between knowledge, policy, and practice / Shirley J. Fiske and Elizabeth Marino -- Disrupting gendered outcomes : addressing disaster vulnerability through stakeholder participation / Brenda D. Phillips -- Resettlement for disaster risk reduction : global knowledge, local application / Anthony Oliver-Smith -- From nuclear things to things nuclear : minding the gap at the knowledge-policy-practice nexus in post-fallout Fukushima / Ryo Morimoto -- "Haitians need to be patient" : notes on policy advocacy in Washington following Haiti's earthquake / Mark Schuller -- The scope and importance of anthropology and its core concept of culture in closing the risk and disaster knowledge to policy and practice gap / Susanna M. Hoffman -- Engaged : applying the anthropology of disaster to practitioner settings and policy creation / Katherine E. Browne, Elizabeth Marino, Heather Lazrus, and Keely Maxwell -- Future matter matters : disasters as a (potential) vehicle for social change : it is about time / Ann Bergman.

"The Angry Earth explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering insight into the complex relationship between societies and their environments. From hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes to oil spills and nuclear accidents, disasters triggered by both natural and technological hazards have become increasingly frequent and destructive across the planet. Through case studies drawn from around the globe the contributors to this volume examine issues ranging from the social and political factors that set the stage for disaster, to the cultural processes experienced by survivors, to the long-term impact of disasters on culture and society. In the second edition, each chapter has been updated with a postscript to reflect on recent developments in the field. There is also new material on key present-day topics including epidemics, drought, non-governmental organizations, and displacement and resettlement. This book demonstrates the relevance of studying disaster from an anthropological perspective and is a valuable resource not only for anthropologists but for other fields concerned with education, policy and practice"--

"Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. People are responding by adjusting their practices, livelihoods, and cultures, protesting and migrating. This book portrays the diversity of explanations and remedies as expressed at the community level and its emphasis on the crucial importance of ethnographic detail in demonstrating how people in different parts of the world are scaling down the phenomenon of global warming"--

Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. People are responding by adjusting their practices, livelihoods, and cultures, protesting and migrating. This book portrays the diversity of explanations and remedies as expressed at the community level and its emphasis on the crucial importance of ethnographic detail in demonstrating how people in different parts of the world are scaling down the phenomenon of global warming.