A textbook designed for students taking a course in natural hazards with an Australasian focus and context. In full colour and richly supported by photographs,

This book explores policy, legal, and practice implications regarding the emerging field of disaster justice, using case studies of floods, bushfires, heatwaves

Australia’s variable climate, geography and environment frequently places communities, infrastructure, ecosystems and cultural and heritage sites in the path

From the agonies of droughts and floods to the shocks of earthquakes and bush fires, Australia is a country famed as much for its ferocious natural hazards as f

Australia is currently facing several significant environmental issues. In Australia, the natural disasters that play an unpredictable part in all our lives are