Terry Cannon
Biographic Data
| ID | 420825 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terry Cannon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terry |
| FAMILY NAME | Cannon |
| SIGNATURE | CANNON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Greenwich |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 194 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Navigating livelihoods and uncertainty: Well-being and identity struggles in four coastal places in India and Bangladesh
Using various localized research methods in four sites in India and Bangladesh (two of them adjacent to the Sundarbans), this article from the Tapestry research project examines the political-economic and cultural basis for livelihoods. It first assesses existing patterns of livelihoods and the resources on which these are based. It highlights the contests between different users and interest groups to access and control the resources and income …
DRR Interview with Terry Cannon: Disaster studies: why is class being ignored
Purpose The transcript is of one from a number of interviews with disaster risk reduction (DRR) “pioneers” carried out in 2022 as a part of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) project to record the history of the field. It aims to enable one of the “pioneers” to explain his role in the emergence of disaster studies and provide critical commentary on what he considers is wrong with current DRR approaches. Design/methodolo…
Trapped in the prison of the mind: Notions of climate-induced (im)mobility decision-making and wellbeing from an urban informal settlement in Bangladesh
The concept of Trapped Populations has until date mainly referred to people ‘trapped’ in environmentally high-risk rural areas due to economic constraints. This article attempts to widen our understanding of the concept by investigating climate-induced socio-psychological immobility and its link to Internally Displaced People’s (IDPs) wellbeing in a slum of Dhaka. People migrated here due to environmental changes back on Bhola Island and named th…
I will not go, I cannot go: Cultural and social limitations of disaster preparedness in Asia, Africa, and Oceania
While much work has been invested in addressing the economic and technical basis of disaster preparedness, less effort has been directed towards understanding the cultural and social obstacles to and opportunities for disaster risk reduction. This paper presents local insights from five different national settings into the cultural and social contexts of disaster preparedness. In most cases, an early warning system was in place, but it failed to …
Resilience as a policy narrative: Potentials and limits in the context of urban planning
The aim of this paper is to analyse the emergence of the concept of ‘urban resilience’ in the literature and to assess its potentials and limitations as an element of policy planning. Using a systematic literature review covering the period 2003–2013 and a combination of techniques derived from narrative analysis, we show that diverse views of what urban resilience means and how it is best used (as a goal or as a conceptual/analytical framework) …
Uncovering ‘Community’: Challenging an Elusive Concept in Development and Disaster Related Work
In all areas of academic or practical work related to disaster risk, climate change and development more generally, community and its adjunct community-based have become the default terminology when referring to the local level or working ‘with the people’. The terms are applied extensively to highlight what is believed to be a people-centred, participatory, or grassroot-level approach. Today, despite, or because of, its inherent ambiguity, ‘comm…
Ecosystems-based adaptation: Are we being conned? Evidence from Mexico
Social Vulnerability and Environmental Hazards
Social vulnerability is the likelihood that people and the way they live will be harmed by a natural hazard because of the influence of economic, political, and social factors. It requires that there be a defined entity that is vulnerable (people and human systems), a hazard that can potentially cause harm to them, and an explanation of the causes of that vulnerability that is rooted in society. Social vulnerability is the terminology in relation…
Contextualizing Disaster
of the two such as "neoliberal globalization," has produced both wealth and inequality at an unprecedented scale.Following the demise of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc, capitalism has emerged as the dominant economic paradigm, expressed as triumphalism, as found in Fukuyama's phrase "End of History" ( ) or in Margaret Thatcher's declaration, "There is no alternative."Social science research has debated the contours of the transformation of sta…
Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction
Introduction The Editors 1 The Culture of (De-)Constructing Disasters. 1.1 Framing Disasters in the 'Global Village': Cultures of Rationality in Risk, Security, and News Kenneth Hewitt 1.2 Conversations in Catastrophe: Neoliberalism and the cultural construction of disaster risk Anthony Oliver-Smith 1.3 Design by Disasters: Seismic Architecture and Cultural Adaptation to Earthquakes Greg Bankoff 1.4 'Learning from History'? Chances, Problems and …
At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters
The term 'natural disaster' is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase 'natural disaster' suggests an uncritical acceptance of a deeply engrained ideological and cultural myth. At Risk questions this myth and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed. The updated new edition confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and…
Alternatives for Sustained Disaster Risk Reduction
The daily media is filled with images of catastrophic events which seem increasingly frequent and violent. In parallel there are a large range of scientific studies, debates in the policy arena, and a growing number of international institutions focused on disaster reduction. But a paradox remains that despite advances in technology, disasters continue to increase, affecting many individuals in rich as well as poor countries
Vulnerability, “innocent” disasters and the imperative of cultural understanding
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to make an argument that there are different types of social construction of disasters. Design/methodology/approach The focus is on disasters triggered by natural hazards. Findings It is now widely accepted that disasters are a product of a natural hazard having an impact on a vulnerable population. But the value of the concept of vulnerability is in danger of becoming less meaningful because it is removed fro…
Community level adaptation to climate change: The potential role of participatory community risk assessment
At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability, and Disasters
At Risk reasserts the significance of the human factor in disasters. Establishing that the social, political and economic environment is as much a cause of disasters as the natural environment, the book argues that disaster mitigation is rooted in the potential humans have to understand their vulnerability and to take common action.Famines and drought, biological hazards, floods, coastal storms, earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides: At Risk draw…
Gender and climate hazards in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has recently experienced a number of high-profile disasters, including devastating cyclones and annual floods. Poverty is both a cause of vulnerability, and a consequence of hazard impacts. Evidence that the impacts of disasters are worse for women is inconclusive or variable. However, since being female is strongly linked to being poor, unless poverty is reduced, the increase in disasters and extreme climate events linked with climate…
Uncertain predictions, invisible impacts, and the need to mainstream gender in climate change adaptations
Vulnerability to environmental degradation and natural hazards is articulated along social, poverty, and gender lines. Just as gender is not sufficiently mainstreamed in many areas of development policy and practice, so the potential impacts of climate change on gender relations have not been studied, and remain invisible. In this article we outline climate change predictions, and explore the effects of long-term climate change on agriculture, ec…
Geography of China: Environment, Resources, Population and Development
At Risk. Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters
(1996). At Risk. Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters. Economic Geography: Vol. 72, Theme Issue: The New Rural Geography, pp. 460-463
Indigenous peoples and food entitlement losses under the impact of externally-induced change
At Risk: Natural hazards, people’s vulnerability and disasters
At Risk reasserts the significance of the human factor in disasters. Establishing that the social, political and economic environment is as much a cause of disasters as the natural environment, the book argues that disaster mitigation is rooted in the potential humans have to understand their vulnerability and to take common action.Famines and drought, biological hazards, floods, coastal storms, earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides: At Risk draw…
Feature reviews: Development and human security
Human Development Report 1994. United Nations Development Programme, New York: Oxford University Press (for UNDP), pp 226, £13.50 pb China Opens its Doors: the politics of economic transition. by Jude Howell, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993, pp 274, £14.95 pb Economic Trends in Chinese Agriculture: the impact of post‐Mao reforms. edited by Y Y Kueh and R F Ash, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, pp 405, £45.00 hb Economic Reform and Socia…
Famine vulnerability and most critical regions: 2Nd International Famine Workshop of the International Geographical Union
Putting the human back into disasters: A personal view of ‘Hazards ’91: International Symposium on Geophysical Hazards in Developing Countries and their Environmental Impacts‘, Perugia, Italy, 4–9 Aug…
The Geography of Contemporary China: The Impact of Deng Xiaoping's Decade
Community level adaptation to climate change: The potential role of participatory community risk assessment
Uncertain predictions, invisible impacts, and the need to mainstream gender in climate change adaptations
Vulnerability to environmental degradation and natural hazards is articulated along social, poverty, and gender lines. Just as gender is not sufficiently mainstreamed in many areas of development policy and practice, so the potential impacts of climate change on gender relations have not been studied, and remain invisible. In this article we outline climate change predictions, and explore the effects of long-term climate change on agriculture, ec…
Uncovering ‘Community’: Challenging an Elusive Concept in Development and Disaster Related Work
In all areas of academic or practical work related to disaster risk, climate change and development more generally, community and its adjunct community-based have become the default terminology when referring to the local level or working ‘with the people’. The terms are applied extensively to highlight what is believed to be a people-centred, participatory, or grassroot-level approach. Today, despite, or because of, its inherent ambiguity, ‘comm…
Gender and climate hazards in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has recently experienced a number of high-profile disasters, including devastating cyclones and annual floods. Poverty is both a cause of vulnerability, and a consequence of hazard impacts. Evidence that the impacts of disasters are worse for women is inconclusive or variable. However, since being female is strongly linked to being poor, unless poverty is reduced, the increase in disasters and extreme climate events linked with climate…
I will not go, I cannot go: Cultural and social limitations of disaster preparedness in Asia, Africa, and Oceania
While much work has been invested in addressing the economic and technical basis of disaster preparedness, less effort has been directed towards understanding the cultural and social obstacles to and opportunities for disaster risk reduction. This paper presents local insights from five different national settings into the cultural and social contexts of disaster preparedness. In most cases, an early warning system was in place, but it failed to …
Contextualizing Disaster
of the two such as "neoliberal globalization," has produced both wealth and inequality at an unprecedented scale.Following the demise of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc, capitalism has emerged as the dominant economic paradigm, expressed as triumphalism, as found in Fukuyama's phrase "End of History" ( ) or in Margaret Thatcher's declaration, "There is no alternative."Social science research has debated the contours of the transformation of sta…
Ecosystems-based adaptation: Are we being conned? Evidence from Mexico
Feature reviews: Development and human security
Human Development Report 1994. United Nations Development Programme, New York: Oxford University Press (for UNDP), pp 226, £13.50 pb China Opens its Doors: the politics of economic transition. by Jude Howell, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993, pp 274, £14.95 pb Economic Trends in Chinese Agriculture: the impact of post‐Mao reforms. edited by Y Y Kueh and R F Ash, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, pp 405, £45.00 hb Economic Reform and Socia…
Alternatives for Sustained Disaster Risk Reduction
The daily media is filled with images of catastrophic events which seem increasingly frequent and violent. In parallel there are a large range of scientific studies, debates in the policy arena, and a growing number of international institutions focused on disaster reduction. But a paradox remains that despite advances in technology, disasters continue to increase, affecting many individuals in rich as well as poor countries
Indigenous peoples and food entitlement losses under the impact of externally-induced change
India's rural development
Marcus Franda views his book as: a modest attempt by an American deeply concerned with India to understand the broad contours of Indian rural development and to assess the myriad options open to Indian leadership. (p. ix)
China's ‘open door’
What was expected of socialist Third World countries used to be fairly clear, at least as far as their external economic relations were concerned. Since self-reliance implied a high degree of internal provisioning they were not expected to engage to any extent in foreign trade. Acceptance of loans, let alone capital investment, from abroad would create grave suspicions as to the integrity of the country's socialist leadership. To find such a coun…
Famine and Vulnerability One‐day Conference held at Soas, London, on 3 December 1988
Chinese famine: An intemperate attack
Famine vulnerability and most critical regions: 2Nd International Famine Workshop of the International Geographical Union
Putting the human back into disasters: A personal view of ‘Hazards ’91: International Symposium on Geophysical Hazards in Developing Countries and their Environmental Impacts‘, Perugia, Italy, 4–9 Aug…
The Geography of Contemporary China: The Impact of Deng Xiaoping's Decade
The Geography of Contemporary China: The Impact of Deng Xiao-ping's Decade
At Risk: Natural hazards, people’s vulnerability and disasters
At Risk reasserts the significance of the human factor in disasters. Establishing that the social, political and economic environment is as much a cause of disasters as the natural environment, the book argues that disaster mitigation is rooted in the potential humans have to understand their vulnerability and to take common action.Famines and drought, biological hazards, floods, coastal storms, earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides: At Risk draw…
Feature reviews: Development and human security
Human Development Report 1994. United Nations Development Programme, New York: Oxford University Press (for UNDP), pp 226, £13.50 pb China Opens its Doors: the politics of economic transition. by Jude Howell, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993, pp 274, £14.95 pb Economic Trends in Chinese Agriculture: the impact of post‐Mao reforms. edited by Y Y Kueh and R F Ash, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, pp 405, £45.00 hb Economic Reform and Socia…
Indigenous peoples and food entitlement losses under the impact of externally-induced change
Geography of China: Environment, Resources, Population and Development
At Risk. Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters
(1996). At Risk. Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters. Economic Geography: Vol. 72, Theme Issue: The New Rural Geography, pp. 460-463
Gender and climate hazards in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has recently experienced a number of high-profile disasters, including devastating cyclones and annual floods. Poverty is both a cause of vulnerability, and a consequence of hazard impacts. Evidence that the impacts of disasters are worse for women is inconclusive or variable. However, since being female is strongly linked to being poor, unless poverty is reduced, the increase in disasters and extreme climate events linked with climate…
Uncertain predictions, invisible impacts, and the need to mainstream gender in climate change adaptations
Vulnerability to environmental degradation and natural hazards is articulated along social, poverty, and gender lines. Just as gender is not sufficiently mainstreamed in many areas of development policy and practice, so the potential impacts of climate change on gender relations have not been studied, and remain invisible. In this article we outline climate change predictions, and explore the effects of long-term climate change on agriculture, ec…
At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability, and Disasters
At Risk reasserts the significance of the human factor in disasters. Establishing that the social, political and economic environment is as much a cause of disasters as the natural environment, the book argues that disaster mitigation is rooted in the potential humans have to understand their vulnerability and to take common action.Famines and drought, biological hazards, floods, coastal storms, earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides: At Risk draw…
Vulnerability, “innocent” disasters and the imperative of cultural understanding
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to make an argument that there are different types of social construction of disasters. Design/methodology/approach The focus is on disasters triggered by natural hazards. Findings It is now widely accepted that disasters are a product of a natural hazard having an impact on a vulnerable population. But the value of the concept of vulnerability is in danger of becoming less meaningful because it is removed fro…
Community level adaptation to climate change: The potential role of participatory community risk assessment
Alternatives for Sustained Disaster Risk Reduction
The daily media is filled with images of catastrophic events which seem increasingly frequent and violent. In parallel there are a large range of scientific studies, debates in the policy arena, and a growing number of international institutions focused on disaster reduction. But a paradox remains that despite advances in technology, disasters continue to increase, affecting many individuals in rich as well as poor countries
At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters
The term 'natural disaster' is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase 'natural disaster' suggests an uncritical acceptance of a deeply engrained ideological and cultural myth. At Risk questions this myth and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed. The updated new edition confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and…
Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction
Introduction The Editors 1 The Culture of (De-)Constructing Disasters. 1.1 Framing Disasters in the 'Global Village': Cultures of Rationality in Risk, Security, and News Kenneth Hewitt 1.2 Conversations in Catastrophe: Neoliberalism and the cultural construction of disaster risk Anthony Oliver-Smith 1.3 Design by Disasters: Seismic Architecture and Cultural Adaptation to Earthquakes Greg Bankoff 1.4 'Learning from History'? Chances, Problems and …
Contextualizing Disaster
of the two such as "neoliberal globalization," has produced both wealth and inequality at an unprecedented scale.Following the demise of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc, capitalism has emerged as the dominant economic paradigm, expressed as triumphalism, as found in Fukuyama's phrase "End of History" ( ) or in Margaret Thatcher's declaration, "There is no alternative."Social science research has debated the contours of the transformation of sta…
Social Vulnerability and Environmental Hazards
Social vulnerability is the likelihood that people and the way they live will be harmed by a natural hazard because of the influence of economic, political, and social factors. It requires that there be a defined entity that is vulnerable (people and human systems), a hazard that can potentially cause harm to them, and an explanation of the causes of that vulnerability that is rooted in society. Social vulnerability is the terminology in relation…
Resilience as a policy narrative: Potentials and limits in the context of urban planning
The aim of this paper is to analyse the emergence of the concept of ‘urban resilience’ in the literature and to assess its potentials and limitations as an element of policy planning. Using a systematic literature review covering the period 2003–2013 and a combination of techniques derived from narrative analysis, we show that diverse views of what urban resilience means and how it is best used (as a goal or as a conceptual/analytical framework) …
Uncovering ‘Community’: Challenging an Elusive Concept in Development and Disaster Related Work
In all areas of academic or practical work related to disaster risk, climate change and development more generally, community and its adjunct community-based have become the default terminology when referring to the local level or working ‘with the people’. The terms are applied extensively to highlight what is believed to be a people-centred, participatory, or grassroot-level approach. Today, despite, or because of, its inherent ambiguity, ‘comm…
Political science (23 works) · Geography (19 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (17 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Computer security (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works)