The Indian Ocean Tsunami: The Global Response to a Natural Disaster

Contributors

301 Contributors KOJI FUJIMA is professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National Defense Academy, Yokosuka, Japan. His research focus is on tsunami hazard, coastal engineering, and wave propagation and transformation. CHRISTOPHER JASPARRO is associate professor of national security affairs at U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. His primary interests are transnational and environmental security issues and the regional geography of Asia and Africa. His recent research has been published in outlets such as Geopolitics and Jane’s Intelligence Review. PRADYUMNA P. KARAN, University Research Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, is author of several books on environment and development issues in the non-Western world. MUTHUSAMI KUMARAN is assistant professor of nonprofit management and community organizations in the Department of Family,Youth and Community Sciences at the University of Florida.He has worked in both government and nonprofit sectors, and has assisted nonprofit organizations and NGOs in the United States and India. J. FRANCIS LAWRENCE is professor of geology at the Presidency College, Chennai, India. K. MANOHARAN is on the faculty of the Department of Earth Sciences, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India. M. V. MUKESH is assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India. 302 Contributors MARTIN MULLIGAN is director of the Globalism Research Centre at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He specializes in research on the sustainability of local communities in the context of accelerating global integration, and is the author of Decolonizing Nature: Strategies for Conservation in a Postcolonial World (2003). PURVAJARAMACHANDRAN is a scientist at the Institute for Ocean Management , Anna University, Chennai, India. Her research interests include studies on trace gas emissions from mangroves and biogeochemical cycles in coastal ecosystems. RAMESH RAMCHANDRAN is the director of the Institute for Ocean Management ,Anna University,Chennai,India.His research deals with coastal zone management. ANTONYSAMY SAGAYARAJ is lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Philosophy at Nanzan University,Nagoya,Japan.His research interests are socioreligious movements, caste, communalism, and gender in India. MIRANDA A. SCHREURS is director of the Environmental Policy Research Centre and professor of comparative politics at the Free University of Berlin, and dean of research in the Department of Political and Social Sciences. She serves on the German Advisory Council on the Environment. S.RANISENTHAMARAI is professor of geography at the Presidency College, Chennai, India. BOJARAJANSENTHILKUMAR is research associate at the Institute for Ocean Management, Anna University, Chennai, India. P.SERALATHAN is professor in the Department of Marine Geology and Geophysics in the School of Marine Sciences at Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, Kerala, India. JUDITH SHAW is senior research fellow at Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Victoria, Australia. She is the leader of the research team investigating housing resettlement projects in areas affected by the 2004 tsunami in India and Sri Lanka. Contributors 303 S.R.SINGARASUBRAMANIAN is associate professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India. S. SRINIVASALU is associate professor in the Department of Geology, Anna University, Chennai, India. SHANMUGAM P. SUBBIAH, professor emeritus of geography at the University of Madras, Chennai, India, is editor of the Indian Geographical Journal and Natural Hazards and Disasters: Essays on Impacts and Management (2009). SEIKO SUGIMOTO is professor of social anthropology at Kyoto Bunkyo University, with regional specialization in India, Madagascar, Mauritius, and Japan.She is the author of Goddess,Temples andVillage Networks in Kongunadu, Tamil Nadu, India (2006). YOSHIOSUGIMOTO,aseniorfacultymemberinanthropologyattheNational Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, directs studies on the social anthropology of South Asia. His current research focus is on Christianity and popular cultures in the context of nationalism in India. JONATHAN TAYLOR is associate professor of geography at California State University, Fullerton. He conducts research on environmental issues in Asia, particularly vulnerabilities to climate change, and has published in journals such as Geopolitics, Political Geography, and the Geographical Review. TRICIA TORRIS is working with the University of Hawaii Department of Family Medicine and Community Health as program coordinator for a cooperative agreement through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands.She has several years of experience in disaster management and humanitarian assistance. She worked with the NGOs involved in tsunami relief in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, India. MASATOMOUMITSU, professor emeritus at Nagoya University,is a professor of geography at Nara University, Japan. His research field...