Disaster Upon Disaster

Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice

354 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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 factors, risk construction, complexity of resettlement, and importance of peoples' culture, very little has become protocol and procedure. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field, goes on to detail contingencies, predicaments, old and new plights, and finally advances solutions toward greatly improved outcomes.

• Reihe: Catastrophes in Context
• Themen: Geowissenschaften, Geographie, Umwelt, Planung Umwelt Naturkatastrophen
• ISBN: 9781789203455
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.10.2019
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Susanna M. Hoffma, Roberto E. Barrios