New Reads—Meet the Authors Event

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Please join us for the second New Reads—Meet the Authors event at this year’s Natural Hazards Workshop! The highlighted books below will be featured in the virtual platform and will be available for viewing and commenting on by attendees throughout the Workshop. Book authors will be available for discussion during the New Reads—Meet the Authors event on July 11 and 12 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. MDT.

To access the New Reads—Meet the Authors content, please register for the Workshop and log into the Pheedloop portal. If you have any questions about the New Reads—Meet the Authors event, please email us at hazards.workshop@colorado.edu.


2021

Stephen O. Bender. 2021. Constructing Risk: Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment. New York, NY: Berghahn Books. (Available for purchase August, 2021)

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Janet Borland. 2021. Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center.

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Sarah E. DeYoung and Ashley K. Farmer. 2021. All Creatures Safe and Sound: The Social Landscape of Pets in Disasters. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. (Available for pre-order now, available for purchase June, 2021)

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Susanna M. Hoffman, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, and Paulo Mendes. 2021. Cooling Down: Local Responses to Global Climate Change. New York, NY: Berghahn Books.

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Timothy W. Kneeland. 2021. Declaring Disaster: Buffalo's Blizzard of '77 and the Creation of FEMA. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

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Carolyn Kousky, Billy Fleming, and Alan M. Berger (eds.). 2021. A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation: Uniting Design, Economics, and Policy. Washington, DC: Island Press.

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Samantha Montano. 2021. Disasterology: Dispatches From The Frontlines of The Climate Crisis. New York, NY: Park Row Books.

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Jason D. Rivera (ed.). 2021. Disaster and Emergency Management Methods: Social Science Approaches in Application. New York, NY: Routledge.

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2020

Neil Dufty. 2020. Disaster Education, Communication and Engagement. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Eli Elinoff and Tyson Vaughan (eds.). 2021. Disastrous Times: Beyond Environmental Crisis in Urbanizing Asia. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

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Kevin M. Fitzpatrick and Matthew L. Spialek. 2020. Hurricane Harvey’s Aftermath: Place, Race, and Inequality in Disaster Recovery. New York, NY: NYU Press.

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Bandana Kar and David M. Cochran (eds.). 2020. Risk Communication and Community Resilience. New York, NY: Routledge.

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Ilan Kelman. 2020. Disaster by Choice: How our Actions Turn Natural Hazards into Catastrophes. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

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Claire Connolly Knox and Brittany "Brie" Haupt (eds.). 2020. Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management: Concepts, Theories and Case Studies. New York, NY: Routledge.

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Shirley Laska (ed.). 2020. Louisiana's Response to Extreme Weather: A Coastal State's Adaptation Challenges and Successes. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

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Michael Méndez. 2020. Climate Change from the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

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Anthony Oliver-Smith and Susanna M. Hoffman (eds.) 2020. The Angry Earth: Disaster in Anthropological Perspective, 2nd Edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

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Felix Riede and Payson Sheets (eds.). 2020. Going Forward by Looking Back: Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse. New York, NY: Berghahn Books.

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Jeff Schlegelmilch. 2020. Rethinking Readiness: A Brief Guide to Twenty-First-Century Megadisasters. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

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Robert W. Schmidt and Sharon L. Cohen. 2020. Disaster Mental Health Community Planning: A Manual for Trauma-Informed Collaboration. New York, NY: Routledge.

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Edward A. Thomas, George Blaine Huff, Jr., and Nancy McNabb. (eds.) 2020. The Community Resilience Handbook. Chicago, IL: ABA Book Publishing.

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Jennifer Trivedi. 2020. Mississippi after Katrina: Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction on the Gulf Coast. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

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2019

Daniel P. Aldrich. 2019. Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan’s 3/11 Disasters. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

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Susanna M. Hoffman and Roberto E. Barrios (eds.). 2019. Disaster Upon Disaster: Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice. New York, NY: Berghahn Books.

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Alessandra Jerolleman 2019. Disaster Recovery Through the Lens of Justice. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan.

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Michael K. Lindell, Pamela Murray-Tuite, Brian Wolshon, and Earl J. Baker. 2019. Large-Scale Evacuation: The Analysis, Modeling, and Management of Emergency Relocation from Hazardous Areas, 1st Edition. New York, NY: Routledge.

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Julie Maldando. 2019. Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone: Standing on Vanishing Land in Coastal Louisiana. New York, NY: Routledge.

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Jean Parker. 2019. Emergency Preparedness Through Community Cohesion: An Integral Approach to Resilience, 1st Edition. New York, NY: Routledge.

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Claire Rubin. 2019. Emergency Management: The American Experience. Routledge Publisher.

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Claire B. Rubin and Susan L. Cutter. 2019. U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century: From Disaster to Catastrophe. Routledge Publisher.

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Kathleen Tierney. 2019. Disasters: A Sociological Approach. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

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2018

Scott Frickel and James R. Elliott. 2018. Sites Unseen: Uncovering Hidden Hazards in American Cities. New York: Russell Sage Foundation and the American Sociological Association’s Rose Series in Sociology.

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Havidán Rodríguez, William Donner, and Joseph Trainor (eds.). 2018. Handbook of Disaster Research, Second Edition. New York, NY: Springer.

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2017

Kelly Frailing and Dee Wood Harper. 2017. Toward a Criminology of Disaster: What We Know and What We Need to Find Out. London, England: Palgrave Macmillan.

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