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Volume 55, Issue 3

December 2010

EXTREME EVENTS AND VULNERABILITY IN ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY

Issue Editors:

Thomas Glade,
Carsten Felgentreff,
Jörn Birkmann

11 articles in this issue

Editorial for the special issue: extreme events and vulnerability in environment and society
Thomas Glade
Carsten Felgentreff
Joern Birkmann
EditorialNotes 10 November 2010 Pages: 571 - 576
The Upper Middle Rhine Valley as a risk area
Jörg Grunert
Sigrid Hess
Original Paper 23 November 2010 Pages: 577 - 597
Urban malaria in Africa: an environmental and socio-economic modelling approach for Yaoundé, Cameroon
Roland Ngom
Alexander Siegmund
Original Paper 10 December 2009 Pages: 599 - 619
Vulnerability, resilience and development discourses in context of climate change
Terry Cannon
Detlef Müller-Mahn
Events 28 January 2010 Pages: 621 - 635
Extreme events and disasters: a window of opportunity for change? Analysis of organizational, institutional and political changes, formal and informal responses after mega-disasters
J. Birkmann
P. Buckle
J. Kropp
Original Paper 13 December 2008 Pages: 637 - 655
Learning from (small) disasters
Martin Voss
Klaus Wagner
Original Paper 19 January 2010 Pages: 657 - 669
The dynamics of vulnerability: some preliminary thoughts about the occurrence of ‘radical surprises’ and a case study on the 2002 flood (Germany)
Christian Kuhlicke
Original Paper 26 October 2010 Pages: 671 - 688
Climate change, environmental degradation and migration
K. Warner
M. Hamza
A. Julca
ORIGIAL PAPER 18 August 2009 Pages: 689 - 715
Vulnerabilities and migration in Small Island Developing States in the context of climate change
Alex Julca
Oliver Paddison
Original Paper 25 March 2009 Pages: 717 - 728
Scales as a challenge for vulnerability assessment
Alexander Fekete
Marion Damm
Jörn Birkmann
Original Paper 02 September 2009 Pages: 729 - 747
Understanding multiple thresholds of coupled social–ecological systems exposed to natural hazards as external shocks
Fabrice G. Renaud
Jörn Birkmann
Gilberto C. Gallopín
Original Paper 06 March 2010 Pages: 749 - 763