Greg Bankoff is a non-western historian with interests in the role of disasters in human societies, resources and risk management, the environmental consequences of modern conflict, human-animal relations, and the development of colonial science. Though his particular geographical focus is on Southeast Asia and on the maritime nature of Spain’s empire in the Pacific, he has increasingly become more of a global historian in recent years.

Greg is currently working on some new ideas related to climate change around the central question of why we don’t take the steps to ameliorate or minimise climate change when we know what to do, which was the theme of his contribution to the debate on Geo-engineering: Pipe Dream or Reality? in March 2010.

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Greg Bankoff, ‘First Impressions: Diarists, Scientists, Imperialists and the Management of the Environment in the American Pacific, 1899-1902’, Journal of Pacific History , 44(3), 2009, pp.261-280.

Greg Bankoff and Dorothea Hilhorst, ‘The Politics of Risk in the Philippines: Comparing State and NGO Perceptions of Disaster Management’, Disasters, 33(4), 2009, pp. 686-704.

Greg Bankoff, ‘Breaking New Ground? Gifford Pinchot and the Birth of “Empire Forestry” in the Philippines, 1900-1905’, Environment and History, 15(3), 2009, pp.369-393.

Greg Bankoff, ‘A Month in the Life of José Salud, Forester in the Spanish Philippines, July 1882,’ Global Environment, 3, 2009, pp.8-47.

Greg Bankoff, ‘Living with Risk, Coping with Disasters: Hazard as a Frequent Life Experience in the Philippines,’ Education About Asia, 12(2), 2007, pp. 26-29

Greg Bankoff, ‘Fire and Quake in the Construction of Old Manila’, Medieval History Journal , 10(1/2), 2007, pp.411-427

Greg Bankoff, ‘Bodies on the Beach: Domesticates and Disasters in the Spanish Philippines 1750-1898’, Environment and History, 13(3), 2007, pp.285-306

Greg Bankoff, ‘The Dangers of Going It Alone: Social Capital and the Origins of Community Resilience in the Philippines’, Continuity and Change , 22(2), 2007, pp.327-355

Greg Bankoff, ‘One Island Too Many: Reappraising the Extent of Deforestation in the Philippines Prior to 1946’, Journal of Historical Geography , 33(2), 2007, pp.314-334

Greg Bankoff, ‘Winds of Colonisation: The Meteorological Contours of Spain's Imperium in the Pacific, 1521-1898’, Environment and History, 1, 2006, pp.65-88

Greg Bankoff, ‘“These Brothers of Ours”: Poblete’s Obreros and the Road to Baguio 1903-1905’, Journal of Social History, , 38(4), 2005, pp.1047-1072

Greg Bankoff, ‘Wants, Wages and Workers: Laboring in the American Philippines, 1899-1908’, Pacific Historical Review, 74(1), 2005, pp.59-86.

Greg Bankoff, ‘Bestia Incognita: The Horse and Its History in the Philippines 1880-1930’, Anthrozoös, 17(1), 2004, pp.3-25

Greg Bankoff, ‘In the Eye of the Storm: The Social Construction of the Forces of Nature and the Climatic and Seismic Construction of God in the Philippines’, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 35(1), 2004, pp.91-111

Greg Bankoff, ‘“Regions of Risk”: Western Discourses on Terrorism and the Significance of Islam’, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 26(6), 2003, pp.411-426

Greg Bankoff, ‘Constructing Vulnerability: The Historical, Natural and Social Generation of Flooding in Metro Manila’, Disasters, 27(3), 2003, pp.224-238

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Greg Bankoff, Department of History, University of Hull

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