Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk Who Speaks? Who Suffers?

"A wonderful compendium and source for inspiration in the field of reducing and managing disaster risk. An immense contribution to an essential requirement for sustainable development in the world."

Salvano Briceno, former Director of UNISDR (now UNDRR), 2001-2011.

"This book reinforces inevitable principles from studying disaster risks: disasters are socially constructed processes; we must look at the global from the local and the local from the global; always privilege the identification of root causes of disasters. It brings together theoretically, methodologically, and conceptually the disaster risk realities experienced daily around the world."

Virginia García-Acosta, Emeritus Researcher, Professor in History and Anthropology, CIESAS (Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology), Mexico.

"This volume represents a good overall synthesis of existing literature, but also expands beyond traditional topics to include analyses of the COVID-19 pandemic and potential hazards beyond the Earth. This volume continues the extraordinary work of Ben Wisner and his colleagues, providing insights into existing and evolving hazards and suggesting pathways for action."

Michèle Companion, Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, and President of the Research Committee on Sociology of Disasters (RC-39) at the International Sociological Association (ISA).