Reidar Staupe-Delgado is an Associate Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and a Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellow (MSCA-IF) at Roskilde University, Denmark. His research interests revolve around disasters, health emergencies and broader social problems, with a particular focus on slowly manifesting disasters.

Foreword by JC Gaillard Part 1: Context 1. Introduction: life in anticipation of slow calamity 2. Aponte: political, geographical and community context 3. The phenomenon: the natural hazard and its characteristics: some reflections Part 2: Experiencing slow calamity 4. Making sense of the hazard: interpretations of the phenomenon 5. Living with a slow calamity: disruption and continuity in the face of creeping destruction 6. The ancestral land: territory, community and resettlement Part 3: Reflections 7. Living in anticipation of impending calamity: towards an analytical notion 8. Concluding reflections

The book provides insights into community narratives concerning life in the face of creeping calamities through a case study from the Colombian Andes. It sets out to make sense of the lived experience of disasters that are slowly unfolding as well disasters that have not yet occurred.