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Postcolonial riskscapes: risk, trust, and the community-based response to Ebola virus disease in Liberia
The initial outbreak response to the 2014–2016 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa was met with resistance in Liberia. In part, this was because...
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Contemporary Issues Affecting Wildlife Tourism: Crises and Disasters
Crises and disasters are among the most critical threats to the sustainability of wildlife tourism globally. The chapter assesses the crises and...
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Durban’s Back of Port Project: a Local Spatial Knowledge Production Process Framed by Urban Entrepreneurialism
Cities position themselves to compete in the global economy using large-scale entrepreneurial interventions, which have the potential to...
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The Social Amplification of Tree Health Risks: The Case of Ash Dieback Disease in the UK
The risks posed by tree pests and diseases have been widely recognised in expert circles, but the degree to which this awareness is shared by publics...
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“The Smoke of an Eruption and the Dust of an Earthquake”: Dark Tourism, the Sublime, and the Re-animation of the Disaster Location
Juxtaposing Antiquity with the Apocalypse, this chapter explores the re-animation of Pompeii as a disaster tourism trope found used, for example, on...
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Historical Disaster Experiences: First Steps Toward a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters Across Asia and Europe in the Preindustrial Era
This introductory contribution presents the main topics of the volume. It positions research on historical natural disasters as a recent trend...
