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This handbook features a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive text addressing human-animal interactions (HAIs) in the context of climate change, disasters, and other crises. The increasing frequency, scope, and magnitude of global extreme events affect humans and their animal co-inhabitants on our shared planet. HAIs provide various health, social, and cultural benefits, supporting human-centred disaster efforts. This book presents international professionals’ leading ideas, debates, approaches, and promising efforts, providing a range of perspectives across the disaster cycle (preparedness, emergency response, reconstruction and recovery, and mitigation) associated with HAI-driven disaster research, practice, and policymaking. The knowledge, experience, and expertise from the Global South and North contribute to a nuanced understanding of disaster-specific HAIs, shedding light on enhancing human-animal welfare, promoting trans-species justice, and building resilience. Students, researchers, educators, practitioners, policymakers, and other stakeholders can apply this expertise to enhance human-animal welfare and resilience associated with a changing climate and increased global extreme events. Chapter ""Working Equids in Disasters: Local Concerns and Inspirations"" is available open access under a  Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

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Author:   Haorui Wu ,  Kyle Breen ,  Sarah E. DeYoung
Publisher:   Palgrave MacMillan
Imprint:   Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:  

9783032003126

ISBN 10:   3032003121
Pages:   500
Publication Date:   09 October 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Human-Animal-Environment Nexus Associated with Extreme Events.- 2. Conceptual Framework.- SECTION 1: MITIGATION.- 3. The Politics of Human-Wildlife Conflicts in the Southern Africa Development Community.- 4. Working Equids in Disasters: Local Concerns and Inspirations.- 5. Rescue, Disease, and Conservation: The Working Dog does it All. (Nature’s Multi-tool).- 6. Human-Cow Encounters under Climate Change in Nigeria: The Entanglements of Violence, Politics and Environment Contestation.- 7. Human-Animal Interactions in Disaster Management: Insights from Pakistan and the Global South.- SECTION 2: PREPAREDNESS.- 8. Climate Change, Animal and Vector Movement, and Zoonotic Disease Boundary Changes.-9. Disaster Preparedness and Companion Animals in Japan: A Comparative Study with Germany.- 10. Assessing the Vulnerability of Agricultural Operations.- 11. Exploring The Human-Animal Bond and Climate Risk: A Path Forward?.- SECTION 3: EMERGENCY RESPONSE.- 12. Experiences of People with (Dis)abilities Living with Companion Animals During the Public Health Emergency of COVID-19: A Comparative Case Study of Xi'an, China and Vancouver, Canada.- 13. The rise of Animal Emergency Management in Australia.- 14. Guidance for Canada’s Wildfire Emergency Response Efforts: Learning from Volunteer Therapy Dog Program Support During Saskatchewan Crises- 15. Building Risk Communication Capacity for Veterinary Professionals: Insights from Teaching Strategies and Veterinary Practitioners.- 16. Policies and Considerations of Human-Animal Cohabitating and Co-Locating in Emergencies – How Colorado is Prioritizing the Human-Animal Relationship.- SECTION 4: RECONSTRUCTION AND RECOVERY.- 17. Memorialization of Animals in Disasters.- 18. Organizing Ecologies of (Human) Abandonment on Portuguese Wildfires.- 19. A Critical Analysis of Service Dogs in the Context of Canine-Assisted Interventions for Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).- 20. Defining Disaster Beyond the Human - Towards Multispecies Community Resilience.- 21. The Impacts of Human-Animal Interaction (HAI) on COVID-19 Recovery in Communities: A Scoping Review- 22. Conclusion.

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Haorui Wu is the Canada Research Chair in Resilience and an associate professor in the School of Social Work, the Faculty of Health at Dalhousie University, Canada. His community-based interdisciplinary efforts have nuancedly contributed to disaster-driven human and non-human settlement development through the lens of environmental, social, and health justice. Kyle Breen is an assistant professor of sociology at Texas A&M International University, in Laredo, TX, USA. His research focuses on educational impacts post-disaster, disaster impacts to historically marginalized populations, and disaster volunteerism. Regarding animals in disasters, he has previously researched animal-related information dissemination following the 2023 Nova Scotia wildfires. Sarah E. DeYoung is a core faculty member in the Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware, USA, and a faculty member in the Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice. Her expertise is within the areas of vulnerable populations in disasters, evacuation decision-making, and public health in disasters.

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