Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 30 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Fiona Williamson

A historical approach to understanding governance of extreme urban heat in Fukuoka, Japan

Leslie Mabon

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to emergent understandings in research into urban climate change-related disasters (such as extreme heat), which recognise that…

Diluvial nation: building imperial Japan through floods

Lisa Yoshikawa

This article assesses the development of flood relief and recovery, and their narratives, as political sites for the central and local governments to negotiate each other's…

Typhoon disaster politics in pre-1945 Asia: three case studies

Gerry van Klinken

This paper focuses on the adaptations societies make to climate-related disasters. How they learnt from them in the past should indicate how they will respond in the more…

Southern skies: Australian atmospheric research and global climate change

Ruth A. Morgan

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of Australian climate scientists in advancing the state of knowledge about the causes and mechanisms of climatic change and…

Testing the precautionary argument after the Lucky Dragon incident

Matthias Dörries

This paper uses a historical case study, the controversy over the possibility of climatic extremes caused by hydrogen bomb tests on Pacific Ocean atolls during the 1950s, to show…