This Edited book introduces the concept of complex disasters and considers both disaster risks and impacts across the disaster management spectrum ¿ Prevention ¿ Preparation ¿ Response and Recovery. Three types of complex disasters are analysed ¿ ¿Compound¿, ¿Cascading¿ and ¿Protracted¿.Case studies include hazards from fires, through to floods, sea level rise and typhoons are explored through case studies from Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Each is written by scholars and/or practitioners with acknowledged expertise in the field and most chapters are based on detailed case studies of ongoing or recent research projects.The book will be useful to researchers in climate, disaster, or environmental and economic policy, disaster risk reduction, and climate change studies, and practitioners and policy makers applying disaster theory and knowledge into policy and decision-making.

Covers diverse examples from Australia and the Asia Pacific region

Section 1: Introducing the concepts.- Chapter 1: The Evolution of Complex Disasters.- Chapter 2: Fire and Flood: Contextualising compound, cascading, and protracted disaster.- Chapter 3: What's in a name? Deconstructing risk and resilience.- Chapter 4: The Nature of Climate-related Disasters in Australia.- Chapter 5: Coasts: A Battleground in Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Climate Change Adaptation.- Section 2: Compound Risks and Impacts.- Chapter 6: Ten years on: Brisbane's compounding flood risk.- Chapter 7: Accounting for the compounding effects of climate change on coastal residents.- Chapter 8: A health geography of the compound effects of contaminated sites and extreme weather events on mental health.- Chapter 9: Living with floods in Makassar, Indonesia: a qualitative investigation of compounding and cascading risks in the context of flood-prone informal settlements.- Chapter 10: Chokepoints: the challenges of improving surveillance of emerging biological hazards across the Indo-Pacific region.- Chapter 11: The role of gardening in response to cascading disaster on peri-urban fringe of Port Vila, Vanuatu.- Section 4: Protracted Disasters and their Impacts on Recovery.- Chapter 12: Public hazard awareness for culturally and linguistically diverse communities during protracted events.- Chapter 13: Earthquakes, tsunami and climate change: customary management and disaster adaptation.- Chapter 14: Kinship as cultural citizenship in post-disaster housing reconstruction: Narratives from fisherfolk in the Philippines.- Chapter 15: The disconnections that facilitate protracted disasters: barriers to adapting to fire in the Australian landscape.- Section 5: Managing Disaster Complexity.- Chapter 16: National policy frameworks for compound, cascading and protracted disasters: learning from other policy sectors.- Chapter 17: Definition and explanation of community disaster fatigue.- Chapter 18: Enabling a collaborative research environment to meet complexities of compound, cascading and protracted disasters.- Chapter 19: Complex disasters as part of everyday life.