Table Of ContentForces of Nature and Cultural Responses
Katrin Pfeifer • Niki Pfeifer
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Forces of Nature and Cultural
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FacultyofPhilosophy MunichCenterforMathematicalPhilosophy
UniversityofGroningen LudwigMaximiliansUniversityMunich
Groningen Munich
TheNetherlands Germany
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Alphabetic List of Contributors
Neville M.Blampied,Ph.D.,Asst.Prof.
Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch,
NewZealand.
AcademicCV Neville M. Blampied has been a member of the academic staff
of the Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, since 1970, and
has been head of department since 2005. His areas of expertise are in social
learningtheory,learningandbehaviourchangeandappliedbehaviouranalysis.
His research has focused on the development and evaluation of innovative
behavioural family interventions, particularly in the domain of infant sleep
disturbance.Hisappliedresearchhasalsocoveredarangeofanxietydisorders,
eating disorders,andtopicsin Health Psychology.Recentresearchhasfocused
on adapting single-case research designs for the evaluation of group interven-
tions and the development of innovative graphic displays based on modified
Brinleyplots.
Contact Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, PB 4800,
Christchurch8140,NewZealand.
Email:[email protected].
KeyPublications
(cid:129) Blampied,N.M.:Single-caseresearchdesignsandthescientist-practitionerideal
in applied psychology. In G. Madden (Ed.). Handbook of Behavior Analysis,
Vol1.Washington,DC:AmericanPsychologicalAssociation,2012,177–197.
(cid:129) Henderson,J.M.T.,France,K.G.,Owens,J.L.andBlampied,N.M.:Sleeping
throughthenight:Theconsolidationofself-regulatedsleepacrossthefirstyear
oflife.Pediatrics126(5)2010,1081–1087.
(cid:129) Blampied, N. M. and France, K. G.: A behavioral model of infant sleep
disturbance.JournalofAppliedBehaviorAnalysis26(4)1993,477–492.
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BobBolin,Ph.D.,Prof.
Affiliation Director, Graduate Program in EnvironmentalSocial Science, School
of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe,
AZ,USA.
AcademicCV Bob Bolin is professor and director of the interdisciplinary
GraduatePrograminEnvironmentalSocialSciencesatArizonaStateUniversity.
He has conducted research on hazards and disasters for more than 35 years,
focusing predominantly on long-term recovery issues and problems of social
vulnerability.Whilemuchofhisearlierworkexaminedmajornaturaldisasters,
especiallyearthquakesinCalifornia,hismorerecentworkhasshiftedtocritical
studiesofenvironmentaljusticeandtechnologicalhazardsincities.Ofparticular
interest to his environmentaljustice research is the use of historical geography
andpoliticalecologytounpackthewaysenvironmentalracismworkstoproduce
unequal environmental burdens in the urbanisation process. His recent work
alsoincludesstudiesofwaterresources,vulnerabilityandclimatechangeinthe
desertsouthwestoftheUSA.
Contact DirectorGraduatePrograminEnvironmentalSocialSciences,Schoolof
HumanEvolutionandSocialChange,ArizonaStateUniversity,Tempe,AZ.
Email:[email protected].
KeyPublications
(cid:129) Bolin,B.,Hegmon,M.,Meierotto,L.,York,A.andDeclet,J.:Doubleexposure
intheSunbelt:ThesociospatialdistributionofvulnerabilityinPhoenix,Arizona.
In Boone, C. and Fragkias, M. (Eds.) Linking Urban Ecology, Environmental
Justice and Global Environmental Change: A Framework for Urban Sustain-
ability.Berlin,Heidelberg:Springer,forthcoming.
(cid:129) Bolin,B.,Seetharam,M.andPompeii,B.:Waterresources,climatechange,and
urbanvulnerability:AcasestudyofPhoenix,Arizona.LocalEnvironment15(3)
2010,261–279.
(cid:129) Bolin, B., Collins, T. and Darby, K.: Fate of the Verde: Water, environmental
conflictandthepoliticsofscaleinArizona’sCentralHighlands.Geoforum39(3)
2008,1494–1511.
Robert K.Doe, Dr.
Affiliation TornadoandStormResearchOrganisation(TORRO),UK.
AcademicCV Robert K. Doe is an accomplishedresearcher, writer and speaker.
He has been a researcherat the University of Portsmouthwhere he specialised
in coastalstormclimates.He waseditorinchiefofthe InternationalJournalof
Meteorology(2002–2006)andisanominatedfellowoftheRoyalMeteorological
Society,director/treasureroftheTornadoandStormResearchOrganisation(UK)
and a member of the American Geophysical Union. He has written papers on
tornadoes, waterspouts, flash floods, snowstorms and climate and risk. He was
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theauthorofthepopularsciencebookExtremeFloods(SuttonPublishing,2006).
Hehasanactiveinterestinthenatureandphysicsofballlightning,particularly
aviation-reportedevents.
Contact TornadoandStormResearchOrganisation,UK.
Email:[email protected].
KeyPublications
(cid:129) Doe, R. K.: Extreme floods: A history in a changing climate. Stroud: Sutton
Publishing,2006.
(cid:129) Sioutas, M., Doe, R. K., Michaelides, S., Christodoulou, M. and Robins, R.:
Meteorologicalconditionscontributingto the developmentof severe tornadoes
insouthernCyprus.Weather61(1)2006,1,10–16.
(cid:129) Doe,R.K.:Extremeprecipitationandrun-offinducedflashfloodingatBoscastle,
Cornwall, UK – 16 August 2004. Journal of Meteorology 29(293) 2004,
319–333.
Michael Grimshaw,Ph.D.,Asst.Prof.
Affiliations Department of Sociology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch,
NewZealand;AmericanAcademyofReligion,Atlanta,GA,USA.
AcademicCV Michael Grimshaw is chair of University of Canterbury Human
Ethics Committee. His areas of expertise are best described as a secular
theologian and critical theorist. His teaching and research focuses on religion
as hermeneutics as “the necessary problem” in the project of modernity and
the associated issues of location, identity and secularity. Put simply, Michael
Grimshaw’s approach starts from a view of religion as “the claim of an
alternative”thattakesvariousformsandexpressions,includingculture,society
andpolitics.HeisamemberoftheNorthAmericanAssociationfortheStudyof
ReligionandoftheNewZealandAssociationfortheStudyofReligion.
Contact Email:[email protected].
KeyPublications
(cid:129) Grimshaw,M.:Encounteringreligion:Encounter,religion,andtheculturalcold
war1953–1967.HistoryofReligions51(1)2011,31–58.
(cid:129) Grimshaw, M.: My name was Christian: C. K. Stead, religion, culture, and
nationalidentity.CommonwealthEssaysandStudies32(2)2010,61–74.
(cid:129) Grimshaw, M.: Responding not believing: Political theology and post-secular
society.PoliticalTheology10(3)2009,537–557.
WilliamS.Helton,Ph.D.,Asst.Prof.
Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch,
NewZealand.
