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An Archipelago of Hazards

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The Philippines is one of the world’s most hazard prone countries. Located on the Pacific Ring of Fire , the archipelago is vulnerable to geophysical hazards, such as earthquakes , tsunamis, and volcanoes (Bankoff 2003; Holden and Jacobson 2012) as well as climatological hazards such as El Niño induced drought (Holden 2013) and tropical cyclones (Holden 2015). Arguably the most salient of these hazards, particularly insofar as climate change is concerned, are typhoons. One of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded in the world, typhoon Haiyan, locally referred to as Yolanda, swept widespread havoc and destruction across the Philippines on November 8, 2013. According to the United Nations’ Office of Coordinated Humanitarian Affairs, 14 million people in the Philippines were affected by this typhoon, including thousands of precious lost human lives and 4 million people were displaced, including 1.8 million children. Nearly, 12,000 babies were born in the month following the typhoon.

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  1. Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    William Holden

  2. Anthropology Department, California State University, San Bernardino, CA, USA

    Kathleen Nadeau

  3. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines

    Emma Porio

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Holden, W., Nadeau, K., Porio, E. (2017). An Archipelago of Hazards. In: Ecological Liberation Theology. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50782-8_4

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