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Contextualizing Disaster
Av Gregory V. Button, Mark Schuller
Inbunden, 2016
1861 kr
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Contextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "highly visible" disasters and several slow-burning, "hidden," crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. The book argues that, while …
Contextualizing Disaster
Av Gregory V. Button, Mark Schuller
Häftad, 2016
301 kr
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Contextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "highly visible" disasters and several slow-burning, "hidden," crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. The book argues that, while …
Disaster Upon Disaster
Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice
Av Susanna M. Hoffma, Roberto E. Barrios
Inbunden, 2019
1921 kr
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A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many aspects of the gap, such as driving factors, …
Disaster Upon Disaster
Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice
Av Susanna M. Hoffma, Roberto E. Barrios
Häftad, 2019
454 kr
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A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many aspects of disasters, such as driving …
Going Forward by Looking Back
Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse
Inbunden, 2020
2621 kr
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Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people settle into hazardous places. While disaster response and management are traditionally seen as the domain of the natural and technical sciences, awareness of …
Constructing Risk
Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment
Inbunden, 2021
1861 kr
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Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies approach economic development while trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers. It examines the …
Making Things Happen
Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan
Inbunden, 2022
1921 kr
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Drawing on the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP), this volume explores the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction. As the latter is often fraught with delays and even abandonment—one cause being ineffective interactions between construction …
Going Forward by Looking Back
Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people settle into hazardous places. While disaster response and management are traditionally seen as the domain of the natural and technical sciences, awareness of …
Power of the Story
Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean
Av Vincent Joos, Martin Munro m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1921 kr
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A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich and diverse set of arguments and analyses on the ever-relevant theme of …
Designing Knowledge Economies for Disaster Resilience
Case Studies from the African Diaspora
Inbunden, 2023
1921 kr
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Disaster research has been studied from many angles, seldom targeting its implications for vulnerable territories in Africa. Entities most subject to the effects of climate change are often undeveloped and located in disadvantaged regions. Post-disaster communities need to scrutinize the social, …
Constructing Risk
Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment
Häftad, 2024
394 kr
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Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies approach economic development while trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers. It examines the …
Making Things Happen
Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan
Häftad, 2024
228 kr
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Drawing on the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP), this volume explores the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction. As the latter is often fraught with delays and even abandonment—one cause being ineffective interactions between construction …
Designing Knowledge Economies for Disaster Resilience
Case Studies from the African Diaspora
Häftad, 2026
228 kr
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Disaster research has been studied from many angles, seldom targeting its implications for vulnerable territories in Africa. Entities most subject to the effects of climate change are often undeveloped and located in disadvantaged regions. Post-disaster communities need to scrutinize the social, …
Capitalism and Catastrophe
A Critical Disaster Studies Manifesto
Av Raja Swamy
Inbunden, 2025
1701 kr
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Synthesizing critical perspectives on the impact of disasters with regard to social inequality, this book brings together key insights from political ecology and historical materialism. Querying assumptions about the “normal” conditions of life, it examines the exploitative structures and practices …
Power of the Story
Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean
Av Vincent Joos, Martin Munro m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
229 kr
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A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich and diverse set of arguments and analyses on the ever-relevant theme of …
Revelatory Pandemic
Crisis, Agency, and COVID in Latin America
Av Roberto E. Barrios, Virginia García-Acosta
Inbunden, 2025
1979 kr
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Political leaders and the news media described the public-health catastrophe of COVID-19 as a crisis, while scholars and public intellectuals portrayed the pandemic as a debacle that would lay bare the inequities and contradictions of an increasingly neoliberal global political economy and usher in …
