All Outputs (42)

Flammable cities: Urban conflagration and the making of the modern world (2012)
Book
Bankoff, G., Lübken, U., & Sand, J. (Eds.). (2012). Flammable cities: Urban conflagration and the making of the modern world. Wisconsin, USA: University of Wisconsin Press

In most cities today, fire has been reduced to a sporadic and isolated threat. But throughout history the constant risk of fire has left a deep and lasting imprint on almost every dimension of urban society. This volume, the first truly global study... Read More about Flammable cities: Urban conflagration and the making of the modern world.

Storm over San Isidro: "Civic Community" and Disaster Risk Reduction in the Nineteenth Century Philippines (2012)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2012). Storm over San Isidro: "Civic Community" and Disaster Risk Reduction in the Nineteenth Century Philippines. Journal of historical sociology, 25(3), 331-351. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6443.2012.01422.x

Using a detailed archival account of a typhoon‐induced flood, this paper examines Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) as practised in a late nineteenth century provincial town in the Philippines. Culture is an important determinant when considering DRR for... Read More about Storm over San Isidro: "Civic Community" and Disaster Risk Reduction in the Nineteenth Century Philippines.

‘A Tale of Two Cities: The Pyro-seismic Morphology of Nineteenth Century Manila’ (2012)
Book Chapter
Bankoff, G. (2012). ‘A Tale of Two Cities: The Pyro-seismic Morphology of Nineteenth Century Manila’. In G. Bankoff, U. Lübken, & J. Sand (Eds.), Flammable Cities: Urban Fire and the Making of the Modern World (170 - 189). University of Wisconsin Press

‘“For the Good of the Barrio”: Community Associations and the State in the Rural Philippines 1935-1965’ (2012)
Book Chapter
Bankoff, G. (2012). ‘“For the Good of the Barrio”: Community Associations and the State in the Rural Philippines 1935-1965’. In E. Bogaerts, & R. Raben (Eds.), Beyond Empire and Nation: Decolonizing Societies in Africa and Asia, 1930s-1970s (167 - 188). KITLV Press. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004260443_009

Historical concepts of disaster and risk (2011)
Book Chapter
Bankoff, G. (2011). Historical concepts of disaster and risk. In B. Wisner, J. Gaillard, & I. Kelman (Eds.), Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction (37-47). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203844236

Big men, small horses: Ridership, social standing and environmental adaptation in the early modern philippines (2011)
Book Chapter
Bankoff, G. (2012). Big men, small horses: Ridership, social standing and environmental adaptation in the early modern philippines. In P. Edwards, K. A. Enenkel, & E. Graham (Eds.), The Horse as Cultural Icon: The Real and Symbolic Horse in the Early Modern World (99-120). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004222427_005

Social impact of the 2004 Manawatu floods and the 'hollowing out' of rural New Zealand (2011)
Journal Article
Smith, W., Davies-Colley, C., Mackay, A., & Bankoff, G. (2011). Social impact of the 2004 Manawatu floods and the 'hollowing out' of rural New Zealand. Disasters, 35(3), 540-553. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7717.2011.01228.x

The Manawatu floods of 2004 have had significant, long-lasting social consequences. This paper draws on findings from a series of detailed surveys of 39 farm households directly affected by the floods and 17 individuals directly involved in managing... Read More about Social impact of the 2004 Manawatu floods and the 'hollowing out' of rural New Zealand.

A Curtain of Silence: Asia's Fauna in the Cold War (2010)
Book Chapter
Bankoff, G. (2010). A Curtain of Silence: Asia's Fauna in the Cold War. In Environmental Histories of the Cold War (203 - 226). Cambridge University Press

Conservation and colonialism: Gifford Pinchot and the birth of tropical forestry in the Philippines (2009)
Book Chapter
Bankoff, G. (2009). Conservation and colonialism: Gifford Pinchot and the birth of tropical forestry in the Philippines. In A. W. McCoy, & F. A. Scarano (Eds.), Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State (479-488). University of Wisconsin Press

First Impressions : Diarists, Scientists, Imperialists and the Management of the Environment in the American Pacific, 1899-1902 (2009)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2009). First Impressions : Diarists, Scientists, Imperialists and the Management of the Environment in the American Pacific, 1899-1902. Journal of Pacific History, 44(3), 261-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223340903356849

They say first impressions always matter. Americans acquired an empire of tropical islands in the Pacific about which they knew little and cared even less. Yet they set to almost immediately to understand and harness these new environments for their... Read More about First Impressions : Diarists, Scientists, Imperialists and the Management of the Environment in the American Pacific, 1899-1902.

Breaking new ground? Gifford Pinchot and the birth of 'Empire forestry' in the Philippines, 1900-1905 (2009)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2009). Breaking new ground? Gifford Pinchot and the birth of 'Empire forestry' in the Philippines, 1900-1905. Environment and History, 15(3), 369-393. https://doi.org/10.3197/096734009X12474738236078

Professional forest management in the Philippines is largely attributed to the ideas and endeavours of American foresters such as Gifford Pinchot, George Ahern and Henry Graves who were instrumental in establishing the Insular Bureau of Forestry in 1... Read More about Breaking new ground? Gifford Pinchot and the birth of 'Empire forestry' in the Philippines, 1900-1905.

The politics of risk in the Philippines: Comparing state and NGO perceptions of disaster management (2009)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G., & Hilhorst, D. (2009). The politics of risk in the Philippines: Comparing state and NGO perceptions of disaster management. Disasters, 33(4), 686-704. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7717.2009.01104.x

It is now generally appreciated that what constitutes vulnerability to one person is not necessarily perceived as such by the next. Different actors ‘see’ disasters as different types of events and as a result they prepare for, manage and record them... Read More about The politics of risk in the Philippines: Comparing state and NGO perceptions of disaster management.

Natural Hazards (2009)
Book Chapter
Bankoff, G. (2009). Natural Hazards. In The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History (753 - 756). Palgrave-Macmillan

Cultures of Disaster, Cultures of Coping: Hazard as a Frequent Life Experience in the Philippines, 1600-2000 (2009)
Book Chapter
Bankoff, G. (2009). Cultures of Disaster, Cultures of Coping: Hazard as a Frequent Life Experience in the Philippines, 1600-2000. In C. Mauch, & C. Pfister (Eds.), Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses: Case Studies Toward a Global Environmental History (265 - 284). Lexington Books

Wood for War: The Legacy of Human Conflict on the Forests of the Philippines, 1600-1946 (2009)
Book Chapter
Bankoff, G. (2009). Wood for War: The Legacy of Human Conflict on the Forests of the Philippines, 1600-1946. In War and the Environment: Military Destruction in the Modern Age (32 - 48). A&M University Press

Vorzeichen für das neue Jahrhundert? Der Tsunami im Indischen Ozean 2004 und der Hurrikan Katrina im Golf von Mexiko 2005(The Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004 and Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico 2005: Portends of the New Century?) (2009)
Book Chapter
Bankoff, G. (2009). Vorzeichen für das neue Jahrhundert? Der Tsunami im Indischen Ozean 2004 und der Hurrikan Katrina im Golf von Mexiko 2005(The Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004 and Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico 2005: Portends of the New Century?). In G. J. Schenk (Ed.), Katastrophen: Vom Untergang Pompejis bis zum Klimawandel (191 - 204). Thorbecke

A Month in the Life of Jose Salud, Forester in the Spanish Phillipines, July 1882 (2009)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2009). A Month in the Life of Jose Salud, Forester in the Spanish Phillipines, July 1882. Global environment : a journal of transdisciplinary history, 2(3), 8-47. https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2009.020302

The discovery of a monthly work schedule for José Salud, a district forester on the island of Panay, provides us with an unique insight into the operations and workings of the Inspección general de Montes, the Spanish colonial forestry service in the... Read More about A Month in the Life of Jose Salud, Forester in the Spanish Phillipines, July 1882.

Comparing vulnerabilities: Toward charting an historical trajectory of disasters (2007)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2007). Comparing vulnerabilities: Toward charting an historical trajectory of disasters. Historical Social Research ==, 32(3), 103-114. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.32.2007.3.103-114

Disasters have two historical trajectories, one 'natural' in that they involve one or more physical hazards and the other societal in that they are largely culturally determined. They are 'historical' in the sense that both forces change over time. C... Read More about Comparing vulnerabilities: Toward charting an historical trajectory of disasters.

Dangers to going it alone: Social capital and the origins of community resilience in the Philippines (2007)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2007). Dangers to going it alone: Social capital and the origins of community resilience in the Philippines. Continuity and Change, 22(2), 327-355. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416007006315

Robert Putnam's influential article 'Bowling alone: America's declining social capital' puts forward a number of possible factors to explain the decline of civil society in the USA. Many of these same forces are also at work in America's erstwhile co... Read More about Dangers to going it alone: Social capital and the origins of community resilience in the Philippines.

Fire and quake in the construction of Old Manila (2006)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2006). Fire and quake in the construction of Old Manila. Medieval History Journal, 10(1-2), 411-427. https://doi.org/10.1177/097194580701000215

Manila, was one of the grandest early modern European cities in Asia, yet it was destroyed by fire and earthquake on numerous occasions. Over successive reconstructions, it evolved a style of architecture and urban planning that reconciled alien noti... Read More about Fire and quake in the construction of Old Manila.