Disaster's Impact on Livelihood and Cultural Survival: Losses, Opportunities, and Mitigation

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by  Companion, Michele

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Disaster’s Impact
on Livelihood and
Cultural Survival
Losses, Opportunities, and Mitigation

Disaster’s Impact
on Livelihood and
Cultural Survival
Losses, Opportunities, and Mitigation
Edited by
Michèle Companion
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Dedication
This book is dedicated to my amazing colleagues and the
professionals who are working in the fields of disaster response,
risk reduction, hazard mitigation, and cultural and livelihood
survival, and who give voice to indigenous perspectives. I am
proud to showcase a tiny sample of their work in this volume.

Contents
List of Figures ...........................................................................................................xi
List of Tables ..........................................................................................................xiii
Foreword ..................................................................................................................xv
Introduction .............................................................................................................xxi
Editor .................................................................................................................xxxiii
Contributors .........................................................................................................xxxv
Section i Disaster Risk Reduction
Chapter 1 Cultural Aspects of Risk to Environmental Changes
and Hazards: A Review of Perspectives ...............................................3
Frank Thomalla, Rebecca Smith, and E. Lisa F. Schipper
Chapter 2 Disaster Risk Governance in Ecosystem-Dependent Livelihoods
Exposed to Multiple Natural Hazards in Uganda ..............................19
Yazidhi Bamutaze
Chapter 3 Gender Considerations for Disaster Management Practices ..............37
Judith P. Weshinskey-Price
Section ii Post-Disaster impacts of
Resettlement and implications
for Rebuilding
Chapter 4 Disaster Resettlement Organizations and the Culture
of Cooperative Labor in the Ecuadorian Andes .................................51
A.J. Faas
Chapter 5 Taking the High Ground: Impact of Public Policy on Rebuilding
Neighborhoods in Coastal Japan after the 2011 Great East Japan
Earthquake and Tsunami ...................................................................63
Alyne Elizabeth Delaney
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Chapter 6 Creating Community after Disaster: Norm Formation
in Post- Hurricane Mitch Resettlements in Honduras.........................75
Ryan Alaniz
Chapter 7 Culture as a Long-Term Coping Mechanism for Resettlement
Trauma: French Pied-Noir Associations and Post-Algerian
War Displacement ..............................................................................89
Victoria M. Phaneuf and Kacy L. Hollenback
Section iii Livelihood Rehabilitation
and Adaptation
Chapter 8 Precious Water: Impact of Drought on Farming Communities
in Southwest Kansas .........................................................................105
Elke Weesjes, with photographs by Tiffany Hagler-Geard
Chapter 9 Examining Social Resilience: Post-Tsunami Livelihood
Rehabilitation and Its Impacts on Households and Communities
in Kamphuan, Ranong, Thailand .....................................................123
Dawn M. Kotowicz
Chapter 10 Livelihood Losses, Recovery, and Opportunities for Cultural
Revitalization: Experience from the 2008 Wenchuan
Earthquake in People’s Republic of China .......................................141
Ziqiang Han, Zhanlong Ba, and Ruiping Xin
Chapter 11 Peace Building and Livelihood Restoration in Human-Made
Disaster: A Case from Gujarat, India ...............................................155
Subhasis Bhadra
Chapter 12 Pathways to Economic Livelihood Recovery: A Study
of Tsunami-Affected Communities in Tamil Nadu, India ...............167
Elizabeth Jordan and Amy Javernick-Will