Sea Level Rise and the Vulnerability of Coastal Peoples
Responding to the Local Challenges of Global Climate Change in the 21st Century
Anthony Oliver-Smith
About the Author
Anthony Oliver-Smith holds the Munich Re Foundation Chair on Social Vulnerability at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security in Bonn, Germany for 2007-8. He is also Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Florida with affiliations with the Center for Latin American Studies and the School of Natural Resources and Environment at that institution. Dr. Oliver-Smith has done anthropological research and consultation on issues relating to involuntary resettlement and disasters in Peru, Honduras, India, Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico, Japan, and the United States. He has served on the executive boards of the National Association of Practicing Anthropologists and the Society for Applied Anthropology and on the Social Sciences Committee of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. He is also a member of La Red de Estudios Sociales en Prevención de De -sastres en America Latina and is on the editorial boards of Environmental Disasters, Sociological Inquiry and Desastres y Sociedad. His work on involuntary resettlement has focused on the impacts of displacement, place attachment, resistance movements, and resettlement project analysis. His work on disasters has focused on issues of postdisaster aid and reconstruction, vulnerability analysis and social organization, including class/race/ethnicity/gender based patterns of differential aid distribution, social consensus and conflict, and social mobilization of community-based reconstruction efforts. He is the author, editor or co-editor of seven books and over 50 articles and book chapters on these topics.
