Abstract
This volume offers state-of-the-art research on the interrelations between the social, built, and natural environments. It will be useful to scholars in cross-cutting areas of urban, hazard, planning, governance, and sustainability research in relation to socio-psychological perspectives. Readers will benefit from new theoretical as well as empirically-based research findings in the emerging field of social-science vulnerability studies.
Highlights
The following paragraphs are reproduced from the website of the publisher [1]: This volume offers state-of-the-art research on the interrelations between the social, built, and natural environments
The volume includes papers investigating human habitats within a variety of settlement structures and settings that are negatively affected by extreme weather events, natural hazards, infectious diseases, contaminations, or crime; as well as empirical case studies describing ways to strengthen environmentally sound behavior and how people behave in specific conditions, e.g., in post-disaster settlements
The focus of the book is on the necessity of studying vulnerability, risks, and complexity as expressions of the impact that global change has on human habitats
Summary
The following paragraphs are reproduced from the website of the publisher [1]: This volume offers state-of-the-art research on the interrelations between the social, built, and natural environments. Received: 10 January 2013 / Accepted: 10 January 2013 / Published: 14 January 2013
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