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Forces of Nature and Cultural Responses Katrin Pfeifer • Niki Pfeifer Editors Forces of Nature and Cultural Responses 123 Editors KatrinPfeifer NikiPfeifer FacultyofPhilosophy MunichCenterforMathematicalPhilosophy UniversityofGroningen LudwigMaximiliansUniversityMunich Groningen Munich TheNetherlands Germany ©photo5000/fotolia.com ©AlexanderWurditsch/fotolia.com ©mirpic/fotolia.com ©ClintSpencer/iStockphoto ISBN978-94-007-4999-3 ISBN978-94-007-5000-5(eBook) DOI10.1007/978-94-007-5000-5 SpringerDordrechtHeidelbergNewYorkLondon LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2012953107 ©SpringerScience+BusinessMediaDordrecht2013 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpartof thematerialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuseofillustrations,recitation, broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway,andtransmissionorinformation storageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodology nowknownorhereafterdeveloped.Exemptedfromthislegalreservationarebriefexcerptsinconnection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. 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Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) This volumeis dedicatedto J. DonaldHughes on theoccasionto celebratehis80thbirthday. Alphabetic List of Contributors Neville M.Blampied,Ph.D.,Asst.Prof. Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NewZealand. AcademicCV Neville M. Blampied has been a member of the academic staff of the Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, since 1970, and has been head of department since 2005. His areas of expertise are in social learningtheory,learningandbehaviourchangeandappliedbehaviouranalysis. His research has focused on the development and evaluation of innovative behavioural family interventions, particularly in the domain of infant sleep disturbance.Hisappliedresearchhasalsocoveredarangeofanxietydisorders, eating disorders,andtopicsin Health Psychology.Recentresearchhasfocused on adapting single-case research designs for the evaluation of group interven- tions and the development of innovative graphic displays based on modified Brinleyplots. Contact Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, PB 4800, Christchurch8140,NewZealand. Email:[email protected]. KeyPublications (cid:129) Blampied,N.M.:Single-caseresearchdesignsandthescientist-practitionerideal in applied psychology. In G. Madden (Ed.). Handbook of Behavior Analysis, Vol1.Washington,DC:AmericanPsychologicalAssociation,2012,177–197. (cid:129) Henderson,J.M.T.,France,K.G.,Owens,J.L.andBlampied,N.M.:Sleeping throughthenight:Theconsolidationofself-regulatedsleepacrossthefirstyear oflife.Pediatrics126(5)2010,1081–1087. (cid:129) Blampied, N. M. and France, K. G.: A behavioral model of infant sleep disturbance.JournalofAppliedBehaviorAnalysis26(4)1993,477–492. vii viii AlphabeticListofContributors BobBolin,Ph.D.,Prof. Affiliation Director, Graduate Program in EnvironmentalSocial Science, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ,USA. AcademicCV Bob Bolin is professor and director of the interdisciplinary GraduatePrograminEnvironmentalSocialSciencesatArizonaStateUniversity. He has conducted research on hazards and disasters for more than 35 years, focusing predominantly on long-term recovery issues and problems of social vulnerability.Whilemuchofhisearlierworkexaminedmajornaturaldisasters, especiallyearthquakesinCalifornia,hismorerecentworkhasshiftedtocritical studiesofenvironmentaljusticeandtechnologicalhazardsincities.Ofparticular interest to his environmentaljustice research is the use of historical geography andpoliticalecologytounpackthewaysenvironmentalracismworkstoproduce unequal environmental burdens in the urbanisation process. His recent work alsoincludesstudiesofwaterresources,vulnerabilityandclimatechangeinthe desertsouthwestoftheUSA. Contact DirectorGraduatePrograminEnvironmentalSocialSciences,Schoolof HumanEvolutionandSocialChange,ArizonaStateUniversity,Tempe,AZ. Email:[email protected]. KeyPublications (cid:129) Bolin,B.,Hegmon,M.,Meierotto,L.,York,A.andDeclet,J.:Doubleexposure intheSunbelt:ThesociospatialdistributionofvulnerabilityinPhoenix,Arizona. In Boone, C. and Fragkias, M. (Eds.) Linking Urban Ecology, Environmental Justice and Global Environmental Change: A Framework for Urban Sustain- ability.Berlin,Heidelberg:Springer,forthcoming. (cid:129) Bolin,B.,Seetharam,M.andPompeii,B.:Waterresources,climatechange,and urbanvulnerability:AcasestudyofPhoenix,Arizona.LocalEnvironment15(3) 2010,261–279. (cid:129) Bolin, B., Collins, T. and Darby, K.: Fate of the Verde: Water, environmental conflictandthepoliticsofscaleinArizona’sCentralHighlands.Geoforum39(3) 2008,1494–1511. Robert K.Doe, Dr. Affiliation TornadoandStormResearchOrganisation(TORRO),UK. AcademicCV Robert K. Doe is an accomplishedresearcher, writer and speaker. He has been a researcherat the University of Portsmouthwhere he specialised in coastalstormclimates.He waseditorinchiefofthe InternationalJournalof Meteorology(2002–2006)andisanominatedfellowoftheRoyalMeteorological Society,director/treasureroftheTornadoandStormResearchOrganisation(UK) and a member of the American Geophysical Union. He has written papers on tornadoes, waterspouts, flash floods, snowstorms and climate and risk. He was AlphabeticListofContributors ix theauthorofthepopularsciencebookExtremeFloods(SuttonPublishing,2006). Hehasanactiveinterestinthenatureandphysicsofballlightning,particularly aviation-reportedevents. Contact TornadoandStormResearchOrganisation,UK. Email:[email protected]. KeyPublications (cid:129) Doe, R. K.: Extreme floods: A history in a changing climate. Stroud: Sutton Publishing,2006. (cid:129) Sioutas, M., Doe, R. K., Michaelides, S., Christodoulou, M. and Robins, R.: Meteorologicalconditionscontributingto the developmentof severe tornadoes insouthernCyprus.Weather61(1)2006,1,10–16. (cid:129) Doe,R.K.:Extremeprecipitationandrun-offinducedflashfloodingatBoscastle, Cornwall, UK – 16 August 2004. Journal of Meteorology 29(293) 2004, 319–333. Michael Grimshaw,Ph.D.,Asst.Prof. Affiliations Department of Sociology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NewZealand;AmericanAcademyofReligion,Atlanta,GA,USA. AcademicCV Michael Grimshaw is chair of University of Canterbury Human Ethics Committee. His areas of expertise are best described as a secular theologian and critical theorist. His teaching and research focuses on religion as hermeneutics as “the necessary problem” in the project of modernity and the associated issues of location, identity and secularity. Put simply, Michael Grimshaw’s approach starts from a view of religion as “the claim of an alternative”thattakesvariousformsandexpressions,includingculture,society andpolitics.HeisamemberoftheNorthAmericanAssociationfortheStudyof ReligionandoftheNewZealandAssociationfortheStudyofReligion. Contact Email:[email protected]. KeyPublications (cid:129) Grimshaw,M.:Encounteringreligion:Encounter,religion,andtheculturalcold war1953–1967.HistoryofReligions51(1)2011,31–58. (cid:129) Grimshaw, M.: My name was Christian: C. K. Stead, religion, culture, and nationalidentity.CommonwealthEssaysandStudies32(2)2010,61–74. (cid:129) Grimshaw, M.: Responding not believing: Political theology and post-secular society.PoliticalTheology10(3)2009,537–557. WilliamS.Helton,Ph.D.,Asst.Prof. Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NewZealand.
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