All Outputs (42)

Of time and timing: Internal Drainage Boards and water level management in the River Hull Valley (2021)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2022). Of time and timing: Internal Drainage Boards and water level management in the River Hull Valley. Environmental History, 27(1), 86-112. https://doi.org/10.1086/717438

This article applies a path-dependency approach to better understand the potentialities and limitations of non-main rivers in England. Using the River Hull Valley of the East Riding as an example, the study explores the underlying historical dynamics... Read More about Of time and timing: Internal Drainage Boards and water level management in the River Hull Valley.

Old ways and new fears bayanihan and covid-19 (2020)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2020). Old ways and new fears bayanihan and covid-19. Philippine studies, historical & ethnographic viewpoints, 68(3-4), 467-475

© Ateneo de Manila University. In times of trouble, Filipinos traditionally turn to one another for help. This form of community assistance is popularly known as bayanihan. Historically, Filipinos have met the challenges of life in their perilous hom... Read More about Old ways and new fears bayanihan and covid-19.

Fire risk reduction on the margins of an urbanizing world (2020)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G., Rush, D., Cooper-Knock, S. J., Gibson, L., Hirst, L., Jordan, S., Spinardi, G., Twigg, J., & Walls, R. (in press). Fire risk reduction on the margins of an urbanizing world. Disaster Prevention and Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-06-2020-0191

Globally, over 95% of fire related deaths and injuries occur in low- and middle-income countries. Within informal settlements, the risk of fire resulting in injury or death is particularly high. This paper examines fire risks in informal settlements... Read More about Fire risk reduction on the margins of an urbanizing world.

Coexisting with volcanoes : the relationships between La Soufrière and the society of St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles (2020)
Thesis
Scarlett, J. P. (2020). Coexisting with volcanoes : the relationships between La Soufrière and the society of St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222815

Human population growth has resulted in increased numbers of people living in areas prone to disasters. Exploring the historical and social context of how volcanoes and their eruptions influence society in different socioeconomic and cultural ways ov... Read More about Coexisting with volcanoes : the relationships between La Soufrière and the society of St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles.

Archaeological and historical insights into the ecological impacts of pre-colonial and colonial introductions into the Philippine Archipelago (2020)
Journal Article
Amano, N., Bankoff, G., Findley, D. M., Barretto-Tesoro, G., & Roberts, P. (in press). Archaeological and historical insights into the ecological impacts of pre-colonial and colonial introductions into the Philippine Archipelago. Holocene, https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683620941152

The tropical forests of the Philippine Archipelago are some of the most threatened in the 21st century. Among the most prominent threats are the introduction of new plant and animal species, as well as new forms of land management (e.g. plantations),... Read More about Archaeological and historical insights into the ecological impacts of pre-colonial and colonial introductions into the Philippine Archipelago.

The neglected country(side): Earthquake risk perceptions and disaster risk reduction in post-Soviet rural Kazakhstan (2020)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G., & Oven, K. (2020). The neglected country(side): Earthquake risk perceptions and disaster risk reduction in post-Soviet rural Kazakhstan. Journal of rural studies, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.08.048

© 2020 The Authors While increasing resilience to earthquakes in the global South has become a major research and policy goal, the focus has largely been on rapidly expanding urban areas. Rural areas are often neglected despite the fact that rural re... Read More about The neglected country(side): Earthquake risk perceptions and disaster risk reduction in post-Soviet rural Kazakhstan.

Under the volcano: Mount Mayon and co-volcanic societies in the Philippines (2019)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2020). Under the volcano: Mount Mayon and co-volcanic societies in the Philippines. Environment and History, 26(1), 7-29. https://doi.org/10.3197/096734019X15755402985532

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 i... Read More about Under the volcano: Mount Mayon and co-volcanic societies in the Philippines.

From nomadic communitarianism to civil socialism: Searching for the roots of civil society in rural Kazakhstan (2019)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G., & Oven, K. (2019). From nomadic communitarianism to civil socialism: Searching for the roots of civil society in rural Kazakhstan. Journal of Civil Society, 15(4), 373-391. https://doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2019.1670386

This article explores the environmental, historical and cultural factors that influence civic engagement among rural communities in contemporary Kazakhstan. It traces how forms of nomadic communitarianism as a response to the vicissitudes of life on... Read More about From nomadic communitarianism to civil socialism: Searching for the roots of civil society in rural Kazakhstan.

What happened to the Second World? Earthquakes and postsocialism in Kazakhstan (2019)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G., & Oven, K. (2020). What happened to the Second World? Earthquakes and postsocialism in Kazakhstan. Disasters, 44(1), 3-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12362

© 2019 The Authors Disasters © 2019 Overseas Development Institute There is an assumption that with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Second World ceased to exist. Yet the demise of the Communist bloc as a geopolitical reality did not mean... Read More about What happened to the Second World? Earthquakes and postsocialism in Kazakhstan.

Solidarity and crisis-derived identities in Samar and Leyte, Philippines, 1565 to present (2019)
Thesis
Borrinaga, G. E. R. (2019). Solidarity and crisis-derived identities in Samar and Leyte, Philippines, 1565 to present. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222102

The study sheds light on local responses to 2013’s Super Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda, then the strongest storm to make landfall, by examining the local history and culture of the people of Samar and Leyte, Philippines, the area worst affected by the storm... Read More about Solidarity and crisis-derived identities in Samar and Leyte, Philippines, 1565 to present.

Remaking the world in our own image: vulnerability, resilience and adaptation as historical discourses (2018)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2018). Remaking the world in our own image: vulnerability, resilience and adaptation as historical discourses. Disasters, 43(2), 221-239. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12312

A warming climate and less predictable weather patterns, as well as an expanding urban infrastructure susceptible to geophysical hazards, make the world an increasingly dangerous place, even for those living in high‐income countries. It is an opportu... Read More about Remaking the world in our own image: vulnerability, resilience and adaptation as historical discourses.

Blame, responsibility and agency: ‘Disaster justice’ and the state in the Philippines (2018)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2018). Blame, responsibility and agency: ‘Disaster justice’ and the state in the Philippines. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 1(3), 363-381. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848618789381

The notion of ‘disaster justice’, that is that governments have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable seems premised on a particular conception of the state that conforms to a Western liberal democratic model. Indeed, the failure of the state to... Read More about Blame, responsibility and agency: ‘Disaster justice’ and the state in the Philippines.

Malaria, water management, and identity in the English lowlands (2018)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2018). Malaria, water management, and identity in the English lowlands. Environmental History, 23(3), 470-494. https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emx137

Much of the eastern seaboard of England lying between East Yorkshire and the Pevensey Levels in Kent constitutes an English Lowlands, a distinctive region characterized by large areas of marsh and fen, and a subculture borne out of the vicissitudes a... Read More about Malaria, water management, and identity in the English lowlands.

Part-time defenders of the Realm : is the history of the Territorial Army a likely indicator of Future Reserves 2020 success? (2017)
Thesis
Allan, S. M. (2017). Part-time defenders of the Realm : is the history of the Territorial Army a likely indicator of Future Reserves 2020 success?. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220370

This research investigates whether the Army Reserve (AR), the new name for the Territorial Army, can become a more integrated, more efficient, better trained, and more deployable force, as intimated by the government, than their previous incarnations... Read More about Part-time defenders of the Realm : is the history of the Territorial Army a likely indicator of Future Reserves 2020 success?.

Aeolian empires: the influence of winds and currents on European maritime expansion in the days of sail (2017)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2017). Aeolian empires: the influence of winds and currents on European maritime expansion in the days of sail. Environment and History, 23(2), 163-196. https://doi.org/10.3197/096734017X14900292921734

Historiography has paid insufficient attention to the influence of winds and currents. The rise of Western European states to global dominance and world empires from the sixteenth century is usually characterised as maritime but should more fittingly... Read More about Aeolian empires: the influence of winds and currents on European maritime expansion in the days of sail.

Hazardousness of place : a new comparative approach to the Filipino past (2016)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2016). Hazardousness of place : a new comparative approach to the Filipino past. Philippine studies, historical & ethnographic viewpoints, 64(3-4), 335-357. https://doi.org/10.1353/phs.2016.0032

© Ateneo de Manila University. The historiography of the Philippines has been largely bounded by the nation-state, which has defined how its past has been conceived and to whom its peoples are mainly compared. A more transnational environmental histo... Read More about Hazardousness of place : a new comparative approach to the Filipino past.

“Lahat para sa lahat” (everything to everybody): consensual leadership, social capital and disaster risk reduction in a Filipino community (2015)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2015). “Lahat para sa lahat” (everything to everybody): consensual leadership, social capital and disaster risk reduction in a Filipino community. Disaster Prevention and Management, 24(4), 430-447. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-04-2014-0063

Purpose
– Effective leadership at the grassroots level can make a crucial difference to disaster risk reduction (DRR) at the local level. Guidance, however, is often not provided through the visible structures of local government but through alternat... Read More about “Lahat para sa lahat” (everything to everybody): consensual leadership, social capital and disaster risk reduction in a Filipino community.

Rethinking the spaces and institutions of flood governance (2013)
Thesis
Rogers-Wright, A. (2013). Rethinking the spaces and institutions of flood governance. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4215549

In 2007 the city of Hull in Yorkshire, England, experienced extremely high levels of rainfall. The city is very low lying, built predominantly on drained land which relies on a pumped drainage system; as a result, the city flooded. There were a numbe... Read More about Rethinking the spaces and institutions of flood governance.

"Deep forestry": Shapers of the Philippine forests (2013)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2013). "Deep forestry": Shapers of the Philippine forests. Environmental History, 18(3), 523-556. https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emt037

Little attention has been paid to writing a more inclusive forest history of the Philippines, one that combines a biocentric and anthropocentric focus. Deep forestry is an attempt to do just that. It shows how the forest was shaped by climate, soil,... Read More about "Deep forestry": Shapers of the Philippine forests.

The 'English lowlands' and the North Sea basin system: a history of shared risk (2013)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2013). The 'English lowlands' and the North Sea basin system: a history of shared risk. Environment and History, 19(1), 3-37. https://doi.org/10.3197/096734013X13528328438992

The history of much of England is written in water. Water has not only shaped England's prosperity and external relations but it has also been a significant factor in fashioning its internal fabric. In particular, large areas of the eastern coastline... Read More about The 'English lowlands' and the North Sea basin system: a history of shared risk.