Hazards, Tipping Points, Adaptation and Collapse in the Indo-Pacific World

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.

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.