Titlebook: Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian Ocean World; Bordering on Danger Greg Bankoff,Joseph Christensen Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if appl

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Revisiting Southeast Asian History with Geology: Some Demographic Consequences of a Dangerous Enviruiescence on the ring of fire, such as the twentieth century, a benign climate and fertile soils can produce rapid population growth and development. But rather than forming a constant, this pattern appears to have been interrupted by periodic disasters. Cooperation between scholars in different dis

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,‘The Most Horrible of Evils’: Social Responses to Drought and Famine in the Bombay Presidency, 1782er draws on new reconstructions of monsoon rainfall intensity for the nineteenth century to explore social responses to drought in western India between 1782 and 1857. The analysis reveals a heavy mortality amongst pastoralist and peasant-farming communities, although this apparently diminished towa

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Philippine Typhoons Since the Seventeenth Century,any given typhoon, the problems associated with the seasonal patterns, increasing wind speeds and the successive nature of typhoons that are associated with the Philippines and the importance of the El Ni?o and La Ni?a phenomena. The chapter also discusses the impacts of typhoons on agriculture and

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Bushfire in Madagascar: Natural Hazard, Useful Tool, and Change Agent,s that the lack of attention to fire comes from the fact that fire is multivalent, ambiguous, and flexible, being simultaneously an occasional ‘hazard’ for thatch-roof huts or crop fields, a ‘useful tool’ that farmers and pastoralists use to manage vegetation, and a major force, or ‘change agent’, t