Meet the Authors Event
Please join us for the third Meet the Authors event at this year’s Natural Hazards Workshop! Book authors will be available for discussion on Monday, July 14, 2025, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. MDT. The event will coincide with the hosted reception and poster session and give Workshop participants the opportunity to interact with the authors of important books on hazards and disasters.
Aside from featuring recent books written by thought leaders in our community, the Meet the Authors event will also serve as a fundraiser for three important initiatives that bring members of underrepresented groups to the Workshop. Book authors are encouraged to donate a portion their sales at the event to either the Mary Fran Myers Scholarship, the Disability and Disasters Award, or the Bill Anderson Fund. Therefore, each book purchased will support hazards and disasters scholars and practitioners.
2024
Duane A. Gill, Liesel A. Ritchie, and Nnenia M. Campbell. (Eds.) 2024. Encyclopedia of technological hazards and disasters in the social sciences. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Compounding disasters in gulf coast communities 2020-2021: Impacts, findings, and lessons learned. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Elizabeth Reddy. 2024. ¡Alerta!: Engineering on shaky ground.. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
2023
Danielle Arigoni. 2023. Climate Resilience for An Aging Nation. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
Louise K. Comfort and Harkunti P. Rahayu. (Eds.) 2023. Hazardous seas: A sociotechnical framework for early tsunami detection and warning. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
2022
Michel Bruneau. 2022. The Blessings of Disaster: The Lessons That Catastrophes Teach Us and Why Our Future Depends on It. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
Louise K. Comfort and Mary Lee Rhodes. (Eds.) 2022. Global Risk Management: The Role of Collective Cognition in Response to COVID-19. New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.
2020
Stefanie Haeffele and Virgil Henry Storr. (Eds.) 2020. Bottom-up responses to crisis. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
Stefanie Haeffele and Virgil Henry Storr. (Eds.) 2020. Government responses to crisis. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
Michael Méndez. 2020. Climate change from the streets: How conflict and collaboration strengthen the environmental justice movement. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
Photos from the 2017 Meet the Authors event at the Natural Hazards Workshop.