Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk: Who Speaks? Who Suffers? (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781032274454)

Ben Wisner is an activist scholar who finds himself tempted by nostalgia for the 70s, 80s, and 90s when he worked to understand and address disaster risk with civil society and local government in a number of countries in eastern and southern Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

Irasema Alcántara-Ayala is a professor and former director at the Institute of Geography at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

JC Gaillard is Ahorangi / Professor of Geography at Waipapa Taumata Rau / The University of Auckland.

Ilan Kelman is Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, England, and a Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.

Victor Marchezini is a sociologist at the Brazilian Early Warning Center (Cemaden).