Under the Volcano

Mount Mayon and Co-Volcanic Societies in the Philippines

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12304110
AutoresGreg Bankoff (0000-0002-5493-0057, Department of History University of Hull Hull HU6 7RX, UK, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen26
Número1
Páginas7-29
Fecha de publicación2020-01-03
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0967-3407 • E-ISSN: 1752-7023
EditorialLiverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3197/096734019x15755402985532
OpenAlexW2998308826
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas6

Rich volcanic soils have long attracted human settlements, which have traded the risk of eruption against the benefits of higher agricultural yields. Yet little research has been done on how societies have normalised the risks and adapted to living in proximity to volcanoes, or how those modifications, in turn, might have influenced the effects of eruptions and their consequent hazards. In short, people have co-evolved with volcanoes to create 'co-volcanic societies'. By looking closely at the Philippines and focusing on one region of southern Luzon around Mount Mayon, this article addresses the question of how people and the volcano have 'co-adapted' to living in proximity to one another over time. It also suggests that to make societies more resilient to volcanic hazards, a better understanding of this relationship is required not only to improve current disaster risk reduction policies but even to inform everyday urban planning and civil engineering decisions

Archaeology · Earth science · Environmental planning · Environmental protection · Geography · Human settlement · Lahar · Meteorology · Mount · Natural hazard · Pyroclastic rock · Seismology · Volcanic hazards · Volcano · Engineering · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Geology