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1. Megacities and the Coast

   Risk, Resilience and Transformation

   Edited by Mark Pelling, Sophie Blackburn

   Based on a major international study, this volume provides a synthesis of scientific knowledge on megacity urbanization on the coast, environmental impacts, risks and management choices, including a focus on adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk management. It is the primary output of...

   To Be Published August 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism

   A Chance to Reclaim, Self, Society and Nature

   Edited by Mark Pelling, David Manuel-Navarrete, Michael Redclift

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   Are established economic, social and political practices capable of dealing with the combined crises of climate change and the global economic system? Will falling back on the wisdoms that contributed to the crisis help us to find ways forward or simply reconfigure risk in another guise? This...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
3. Adaptation to Climate Change

   From Resilience to Transformation

   By Mark Pelling

   The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this context, it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly defensive task – protecting core assets or functions from the risks of climate change. A more profound...

   Published October 14th 2010 by Routledge
4. Disaster Risk Reduction

   Cases from Urban Africa

   By Mark Pelling, Ben Wisner

   Published with ProVention Consortium, UNDP and UN-Habitat 'This excellent book is essential reading for those concerned with urban risk and its reduction in Africa, the most rapidly urbanizing region of the world.' Professor Jo Beall, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics '...

   Published December 17th 2008 by Routledge
5. The Vulnerability of Cities

   Natural Disasters and Social Resilience

   By Mark Pelling

   When disaster strikes in cities the effects can be catastrophic compared to other environments. But what factors actually determine the vulnerability or resilience of cities? The Vulnerability of Cities fills a vital gap in disaster studies by examining the too-often overlooked impact of disasters...

   Published February 28th 2003 by Routledge
6. Natural Disaster and Development in a Globalizing World

   By Mark Pelling

   The number of humanitarian disasters triggered by a natural hazard has doubled every decade since the 1960s. At the same time, the global economic growth rate per capita is twice its 1960s value. Does this mean economic growth is independent of the impacts of natural disaster? Natural Disaster...

   Published February 5th 2003 by Routledge