WORLD WEATHER RECORDS
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: DISASTERS AND HISTORY 1 1 THE KEY THEMES OF THE BOOK 1 2 DISASTER STUDIES AND DISASTER HISTORY: CONNECTED FIELDS? 1 3 INTERPRETATIVE FRAMEWORKS IN HISTORICAL RESEARCH CLASSI?CATIONS AND CONCEPTS 2 1 A TAXONOMY OF DISASTERS 2 2 SCALE AND SCOPE OF DISASTERS 2 3 CONCEPTS 2 3 1 DISASTER AND HAZARD 2 3 2 THE DISASTER MANAGEMENT CYCLE 2 3 3 VULNERABILITY 2 3 4 RESILIENCE 2 3 5 ADAPTATION, TRANSFORMATION, AND TRANSITION 2 3 6 RISK HISTORY AS A LABORATORY: MATERIALS AND METHODS 3 1 HISTORICAL SOURCES 3 1 1 TYPES OF HISTORICAL SOURCES 3 1 2 COMBINING HISTORICAL DATA WITH SOURCES FROM THE NATURAL SCIENCES 3 1 3 HISTORY AND THE DIGITAL AGE: OPPORTUNITIES AND PITFALLS FOR HISTORICAL DISASTER RESEARCH 3 2 METHODOLOGIES 3 2 1 HAZARD AND DISASTER RECONSTRUCTION FROM HISTORICAL SOURCES 3 2 2 VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT 3 2 3 COMPARATIVE METHODOLOGIES DISASTER PRECONDITIONS AND PRESSURES 4 1 ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATIC PRESSURES 4 2 TECHNOLOGICAL, INFRASTRUCTURAL, AND ECONOMIC PRECONDITIONS 4 2 1 TECHNOLOGICAL AND INFRASTRUCTURAL PRECONDITIONS AND PRESSURES 4 2 2 ECONOMIC PRESSURES AND CRISES 4 3 COORDINATION SYSTEMS AND INSTITUTIONAL PRECONDITIONS 4 3 1 COORDINATION SYSTEMS: THE FAMILY, THE MARKET, AND THE STATE 4 3 2 INSTITUTIONS FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION AND THE COMMONS 4 4 SOCIAL PRESSURES: POVERTY, INEQUALITY, AND SOCIAL DISTRESS 4 5 CULTURAL PRECONDITIONS DISASTER RESPONSES 5 1 TOP-DOWN AND BOTTOM-UP RESPONSES 5 2 EXPERIENCE, MEMORY, KNOWLEDGE, AND EXPERTS 5 2 1 MEMORY AND LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE 5 2 2 THE ‘RULE OF EXPERTS’ 5 3 CONSTRAINTS ON DISASTER RESPONSES 5 3 1 INEQUALITIES IN POWER AND PROPERTY 5 3 2 INSTITUTIONAL RIGIDITY AND PATH DEPENDENCY EFFECTS OF DISASTERS 6 1 SHORT-TERM EFFECTS 6 1 1 VICTIMS, SELECTIVE MORTALITY, AND POPULATION RECOVERY 6 1 2 LAND LOSS AND CAPITAL DESTRUCTION 6 1 3 ECONOMIC CRISIS 6 1 4 SCAPEGOATING, BLAME, AND SOCIAL UNREST 6 2 SOCIETAL COLLAPSE 6 3 LONG-TERM EFFECTS 6 3 1 DISASTERS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD? ECONOMIC EFFECTS 6 3 2 LONG-TERM DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES 6 3 3 RECONSTRUCTION, REFORM, AND SOCIETAL CHANGE 6 3 4 ECONOMIC REDISTRIBUTION PAST AND PRESENT 7 1 DISASTER HISTORY AND/IN THE ANTHROPOCENE 7 1 1 CLIMATE CHANGE 7 1 2 CAPITALISM 7 1 3 THE RISK SOCIETY 7 2 THE POTENTIAL OF HISTORY FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING DISASTERS 7 2 1 THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF PRESENT-DAY DISASTERS 7 2 2 THE PAST AS AN EMPIRICAL LABORATORY: INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIAL CONTEXT 7 2 3 THE GREAT ESCAPE: CAN HISTORY TEACH US HOW TO ESCAPE FROM DISASTER? 7 3 THE POTENTIAL OF DISASTERS FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH 7 3 1 DISASTERS AS HISTORICAL PROTAGONISTS 7 3 2 DISASTERS AS TESTS AT THE EXTREME MARGIN 7 4 FUTURE PATHWAYS 7 5 A FINAL WORD ON DISASTER VICTIMS REFERENCES