Environmental Hazards: Human and Policy Dimensions
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Jul. 29, 2026
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The journal addresses the full range of hazards events from extreme geological, hydrological, atmospheric and biological events such as earthquakes, floods, storms and epidemics to technological failures and malfunctions such as industrial explosions, fires and toxic material releases. With a genuinely international perspective, this journal highlights issues of human exposure, vulnerability, awareness, response and risk. The role of hazards in affecting development, and issues of efficiency, social justice and sustainability are also explored in the journal.
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Editor
Professor Edmund Penning-Rowsell, Flood Hazard Research Centre, UK
Associate Editor
Professor John Handmer, Centre for Risk and Community Safety, RMIT University, Australia
Editorial Board
- Dr Allan Lavell, Latin American Social Science Faculty
- Dr Ben Wisner, Oberlin College, USA
- Dr Betty Hearn Morrow, Florida International University, USA
- Professor Boris Porfiriev, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
- Dr Burrell Montz, Binghamton University, USA
- Professor Ian Davis, Visiting Professor in Disaster Management, Cranfield University, UK
- Dr John P. Tiefenbacher, Texas State University, San Marcos, USA
- Dr Juha I. Uitto, United Nations Development Programme, USA
- Dr Kenneth Hewitt, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
- Dr Neil Britton, Regional and Sustainable Development Department, Asian Development Bank
- Professor Peter J. May, University of Washington, USA
- Dr Peter Walker, Tufts University, USA
- Professor Roger Pielke, Centre for Science and Technology Research, Colorado, USA
- Stephen Bender, Organization of American States (retired), USA
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The journal addresses the full range of hazardous events from extreme geological, hydrological atmospheric and biological events such as earthquakes, floods, storms and epidemics to technological failures and malfunctions such as industrial explosions, fires and toxic material releases. Environmental Hazards: Human and Policy Dimensions is the source of the new ideas in hazards and risk research.
With a genuinely international perspective, this journal highlights issues of human exposure, vulnerability, awareness, response and risk. The role of hazards in affecting development, and issues of efficiency, social justice and sustainability are also explored in the journal.
Well known conventional hazards receive extensive coverage but submissions about new forms of hazard, emerging risk management institutions and restructuring of ideas about hazards – including their role in human affairs – are particularly welcome.
Reinvigorating the debate about how we define, understand and manage hazards, the journal is interdisciplinary in scope and open to contributions by specialists from a wide range of fields who are interested in the effects of hazards events on people, property and societies.
Environmental Hazards was published by Elsevier until 2008 and sold in conjunction with Global Environmental Change. Earthscan acquired the journal in 2009.
Sample articles
Living in hazardous waterscapes: Gendered vulnerabilities and experiences of floods and disasters
Considerable literature exists on floods and weather-related disasters, but limited attention has been given to the varied social implications of hazards in the lives of people, especially from a gender perspective. This is particularly poignant in floodplains and coastal areas, where water is a key element in giving, sustaining and taking away life and livelihood. Critical social and geographical analyses enable better understanding of the ways hazardous waterscapes are perceived, experienced and negotiate...
After the Bangladesh Flood Action Plan: Looking to the future
The main objectives of the Bangladesh Flood Action Plan (FAP), to protect the country from river floods, were not achieved, for several political, economic and institutional reasons. Demographic and economic changes in the following 20 years have increased Bangladesh's exposure to damaging floods. The country's newly elected government is committed to providing flood protection and surface-water irrigation as a means to achieve national foodgrain self-sufficiency. Therefore, the feasibility and affordabilit...
Communities of knowledge: Science and flood management in Bangladesh
This paper traces the integration of a particular set of knowledge claims into flood management in Bangladesh following the instigation and collapse of the Flood Action Plan. Using the work of Goodbred and Kuehl (1998) as an entry point and partially in response to Nicholls and Goodbred's (2004) call for integrated assessments to improve understanding and management, we explore the incorporation of sedimentation and subsidence knowledge claims into flood management. We approach this issue from a 'scholarly'...
Cyclone evacuation in Bangladesh: Tropical cyclones Gorky (1991) vs. Sidr (2007)
Based on two separate post-cyclone pilot surveys on evacuation behaviour during two category 4 tropical cyclones in Bangladesh - Gorky in 1991 and Sidr in 2007 - this study attempts to explain why the overwhelming majority of cyclone victims did not participate in evacuation initiatives, irrespective of significant changes in cyclone preparedness in Bangladesh following 1991. Although the two surveys were conducted in different time horizons - one about 10 years following the catastrophic event (Gorky) and ...
The Bible, theodicy and Christian responses to historic and contemporary earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
Theodicy is defined as the process of seeking to reconcile the reality of human suffering with the notion of a loving God. It is commonly associated with several models first proposed by Leibniz in the 18th century, though theodicy as an intellectual and religious pursuit is much older, with antecedents stretching back to biblical times. It is argued that within Christian theology 'divine retribution' is not only the most prominent theodicy within scripture, but is also the one most frequently adopted histo...
Evaluating cartographic design in flood risk mapping
In order to mitigate flood hazards and to minimize associated losses, technical protection measures have been additionally and increasingly supplemented by non-technical mitigation, i.e. land-use planning activities. This is commonly done by creating maps which indicate such areas by different cartographic symbols, such as colour, size, shape and typography. Hazard and risk mapping is the accepted procedure when dealing with natural hazards and is therefore required in the European Member States in order to...
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