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Disaster Management aims to reduce suffering and economic losses
caused by natural and technological disasters. This book provides
the reader with an integrated understanding of the various
disasters, hazards and crises and their control, mitigation and
prevention with reference to possible management solutions.
The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to
leave us all behind. Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas
Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to
survive 'The Event': the societal catastrophe they know is coming.
Rushkoff came to understand that these men were under the influence
of 'The Mindset', a Silicon Valley-style certainty that they can
break the laws of physics, economics, and morality to escape a
disaster of their own making - as long as they have enough money
and the right technology. In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff
traces the origins of The Mindset in science and technology through
its current expression in missions to Mars, island bunkers, and the
Metaverse. This mind-blowing work of social analysis shows us how
to transcend the landscape The Mindset created - a world alive with
algorithms and intelligences actively rewarding our most selfish
tendencies - and rediscover community, mutual aid, and human
interdependency. Instead of changing the people, he argues, we can
change the programme.
Explores the unintended consequences of civic activism in a
disaster-prone city After Hurricane Katrina, thousands of people
swiftly mobilized to rebuild their neighborhoods, often assisted by
government organizations, nonprofits, and other major institutions.
In Rethinking Community Resilience, Min Hee Go shows that these
recovery efforts are not always the panacea they seem to be, and
can actually escalate the city's susceptibility to future
environmental hazards. Drawing upon interviews, public records, and
more, Go explores the hidden costs of community resilience. She
shows that-despite good intentions-recovery efforts after Hurricane
Katrina exacerbated existing race and class inequalities, putting
disadvantaged communities at risk. Ultimately, Go shows that when
governments, nonprofits, and communities invest in rebuilding
rather than relocating, they inadvertently lay the groundwork for a
cycle of vulnerabilities. As cities come to terms with climate
change adaptation-rather than prevention-Rethinking Community
Resilienceprovides insight into the challenges communities
increasingly face in the twenty-first century.
Earthquakes are a huge global threat. In thirty-six countries,
severe seismic risks threaten populations and their increasingly
interdependent systems of transportation, communication, energy,
and finance. In this important book, Louise Comfort provides an
unprecedented examination of how twelve communities in nine
countries responded to destructive earthquakes between 1999 and
2015. And many of the book's lessons can also be applied to other
large-scale risks. The Dynamics of Risk sets the global problem of
seismic risk in the framework of complex adaptive systems to
explore how the consequences of such events ripple across
jurisdictions, communities, and organizations in complex societies,
triggering unexpected alliances but also exposing social, economic,
and legal gaps. The book assesses how the networks of organizations
involved in response and recovery adapted and acted collectively
after the twelve earthquakes it examines. It describes how advances
in information technology enabled some communities to anticipate
seismic risk better and to manage response and recovery operations
more effectively, decreasing losses. Finally, the book shows why
investing substantively in global information infrastructure would
create shared awareness of seismic risk and make postdisaster
relief more effective and less expensive. The result is a landmark
study of how to improve the way we prepare for and respond to
earthquakes and other disasters in our ever-more-complex world.
On 21 October 1966, 116 children and 28 adults died when a
mountainside coal tip collapsed, engulfing homes and part of a
school in the village of Aberfan below. It is a moment that will be
forever etched in the memories of many people in Wales and beyond.
Aberfan - Government & Disaster is widely recognised as the
definitive study of the disaster. Following meticulous research of
public records - kept confidential by the UK Government's 30-year
rule - the authors, in this revised second edition, explain how and
why the disaster happened and why nobody was held responsible. Iain
McLean and Martin Johnes reveal how the National Coal Board, civil
servants, and government ministers, who should have protected the
public interest, and specifically the interests of the people of
Aberfan, failed to do so. The authors also consider what has been
learned or ignored from Aberfan such as the understanding of
psychological trauma and the law concerning 'corporate
manslaughter'. Aberfan - Government & Disaster is the revised
and updated second edition of Iain McLean and Martin Johnes'
acclaimed study published in 2000, which now solely focuses on
Aberfan.
As there is a need for careful analysis in a world where threats
are growing more complex and serious, you need the tools to ensure
that sensible methods are employed and correlated directly to risk.
Counter threats such as terrorism, fraud, natural disasters, and
information theft with the Fourth Edition of "Risk Analysis and the
Security Survey. "Broder and Tucker guide you throughanalysis
toimplementationto provide you with the know-how to implement
rigorous, accurate, and cost-effective security policies and
designs. This book builds on the legacy of its predecessors by
updating and covering new content. Understand the most fundamental
theories surrounding risk control, design, and implementation by
reviewing topics such as cost/benefit analysis, crime prediction,
response planning, and business impact analysis--all updated to
match today's current standards.
This book will show you how to develop and maintain current
business contingency and disaster recovery plans to ensure your
enterprises are able to sustain loss are able to recover, and
protect your assets, be it your business, your information, or
yourself, from threats.
*Offers powerful techniques for weighing and managing the risks
that face your organization *Gives insights into universal
principles that can be adapted to specific situations and threats
*Covers topics needed by homeland security professionals as well as
IT and physical security managers"
The book highlights the root cause of human trafficking and
analyses how factors of vulnerability affect the marginalized,
especially during and after a disaster. Human trafficking like
other studies on disaster research, needs to be tackled from
various perspectives such as empowering the vulnerable people,
creating awareness, strengthening the disaster risk reduction
measures and creating a common platform to fight the vicious circle
by breaking its continuity and making strategies victim centric and
people friendly. The book adapts a multidisciplinary approach
embedding concepts from political, social, economic and
anthropological perceptions. The discourse in the book revolves
around the emotional and psycho-social stress factors including
weak implementation of laws and policies at various levels. The
content weaves around three themes -- magnitude and interlinks
between disaster and human trafficking; policies and protocols on
disaster risk reduction and human trafficking and community
participation and institutional support. Through these themes, the
volume works on identification of the vulnerable areas which are
not in compliance with the Sendai Framework of Action, 2015 in the
backdrop of the Disaster Management Act of India, 2005. The volume
will be of immense interest to a wide range of practitioners,
researchers, academicians, policy makers, political leaders, gender
experts, international organizations, disaster management
authorities, civil society organisations, and scholars working in
the area of human rights in general and trafficking in particular.
Note: This research was funded by Indian Council of Social Science
Research (ICSSR). Human Trafficking is complex, layered and lies at
the intersections of multiple vulnerabilities, gender being among
the most significant ones. This gets exacerbated during both
natural and human made disasters. Any attempt to either understand
or address it will be fraught with challenges if women and girls'
unique vulnerabilities, as well as their needs, voice, choice,
agency and safety is not centre-staged in any effort. Mondira's
book does exactly that...it succinctly and in simple words explores
the compounding discriminations, including structural inequalities,
that cause and result in women and girls differential gendered
vulnerabilities to being trafficked during disasters. Once this is
understood, the solutions can be specific, gender responsive, and
sustainable. - Anju Dubey Pandey, Gender Responsive Governance and
Ending Violence against Women Specialist, UN Women, New Delhi,
India
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted about 1 billion migrants (both
international and domestic) in a variety of ways, and this book
demonstrates how COVID-19 has widened the gaps between citizens,
non-migrant and migrant populations in terms of income, job
retention, freedom of movement, vaccine etc.While there is an
emerging literature studying the impacts of COVID-19 on migration,
the situation in Southeast Asia has not received much scholarly
attention. This book fills the literature gap by studying the
experiences of migrants and citizens in Brunei, Malaysia and
Singapore and highlighting how the pandemic has exacerbated
inequalities between and within the groups. These three countries
are studied due to their high reliance of migrants in key economic
sectors. Findings in this volume are derived from a qualitative
approach, complemented by secondary data sources.This book is
appropriate for undergraduate and postgraduate students of
population studies, epidemiology, political science, public policy
and administration, international relations, anthropology,
psychology, sociology, and migration and refugee studies. Migration
and labour scholars benefit from the nuanced comprehension about
how a pandemic could cause a schism between migrants and the
population at large. Policymakers may consider the proposed
recommendations in the book to improve the migration situation.
This book gathers and disseminates opinions, viewpoints, studies,
forecasts, and practical projects which illustrate the various
pathways sustainability research and practice may follow in the
future, as the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and
prepares itself to the possibilities of having to cope with similar
crisis, a product of the Inter-University Sustainable Development
Research Programme (IUSDRP)
https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-nk/programmes/iusdrp.html and the
European School of Sustainability Science and Research (ESSSR)
https://esssr.eu/. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to severe human
suffering, and to substantial damages to economies around the
globe, affecting both rich countries and developing ones. The
aftermath of the epidemic is also expected to be felt for sometime.
This will also include a wide range of impacts in the ways
sustainable development is perceived, and how the principles of
sustainability are practised. There is now a pressing need to
generate new literature on the connections between COVID-19 and
sustainability. This is so for two main reasons. Firstly, the world
crisis triggered by COVID-19 has severely damaged the world
economy, worsening poverty, causing hardships, and endangering
livelihoods. Together, these impacts may negatively influence the
implementation of sustainable development as a whole, and of the UN
Sustainable Development Goals in particular. These potential and
expected impacts need to be better understood and quantified, hence
providing a support basis for future recovery efforts. Secondly,
the shutdown caused by COVID-19 has also been having a severe
impact on teaching and research, especially -but not only - on
matters related to sustainability. This may also open new
opportunities (e.g. less travel, more Internet-based learning),
which should be explored further, especially in the case of future
pandemics, a scenario which cannot be excluded. The book meets
these perceived needs.
Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes
Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and
researchers, as well as general readers, covering many aspects of
the Famine in Ireland from 1845-1852 - the worst demographic
catastrophe of nineteenth-century Europe. The essays are
interdisciplinary in nature, and make available new research in
Famine studies by internationally established scholars in history,
art history, cultural theory, philosophy, media history, political
economy, literature and music.During the peak years of the great
famine at least 750,000 men, women, and children died from either
starvation or disease. At the same time roughly 350,000 individuals
were driven out of their dwellings. Overall the population of
Ireland fell from some 8.5 million people in 1845 to around 6.5
million in 1851. This ominous drain of humanity continued at a
slower rate well into the twentieth century.Whereas nature could be
blamed for the lethal effects of acute hunger or malnutrition,
human agency caused much of this devastating loss owing to mass
evictions of the poorest tenants and squatters after the agent or
bailiff had served them with the dreaded Notice To Quit. This
richly illustrated pamphlet seeks to contextualize the mass
evictions by focussing on the ideological and economic factors as
well as the role of religious and racial prejudice in prompting
owners to rid their estates of what was known as a "surplus
population." Determined to avoid paying for the maintenance of
unprofitable tenants and squatters, landlords sought to avoid
insolvency by expelling these pauperized peasants. After destroying
their cabins, they consolidated all these small holdings into
larger farms or cattle ranches that were rented to solvent tenants.
Relying on the laws governing land tenure, letting contracts, and
rent, these landlords used the mechanism of eviction to ensure that
their estates would become profitable enough to pay for their own
privileged way of life.Whether or not the victims of eviction
received private or public assistance to emigrate overseas, the
results of these clearances were much the same. Thousands of acres
were converted to pasturage in parts of Munster and Connaught and
small villages or clachans were abandoned. Only the skeletal
remains of stone cottages remained - some of which can still be
seen today.No wonder that many Irish contemporaries called the
evictors "exterminators. "
On February 27, 2010, Chile was rocked by a violent earthquake five
hundred times more powerful than the one that hit Haiti just six
weeks prior. The Chilean earthquake devastated schools, hospitals,
roads, and homes, paralyzing the country for weeks and causing
economic damage that was equal to 18 percent of Chile's GDP. This
calamity hit just as an incumbent political regime was packing its
bags and a new administration was preparing to take office. For
most countries, it would have taken years, if not decades, to
recover from such an event. Yet, only one year later, Chile's
economy had reached a six percent annual growth rate. In Leadership
Dispatches, Michael Useem, Howard Kunreuther, and Erwann
Michel-Kerjan look at how the nation's leaders-in government,
business, religion, academia, and beyond-facilitated Chile's
recovery. They attribute Chile's remarkable comeback to a two-part
formula consisting of strong national leadership on the one hand,
and deeply rooted institutional practices on the other. Coupled
with strategic, deliberative thinking, these levers enabled Chile
to bounce back quickly and exceed its prior national performance.
The authors make the case that the Chilean story contains lessons
for a broad range of organizations and governments the world over.
Large-scale catastrophes of many kinds-from technological meltdowns
to disease pandemics-have been on the rise in recent years. Now is
the time to seek ideas and guidance from other leaders who have
triumphed in the wake of a disaster. In this vein, Leadership
Dispatches is both a remarkable story of resilience and an
instructive look at how those with the greatest responsibility for
a country, company, or community should lead.
Pandemic policies have been the focus of fierce lobbying
competition by different social and economic interests. In Viral
Lobbying a team of expert authors from across the social and
natural sciences analyse patterns in and implications of this
'viral lobbying'. Based on elite surveys and focus group interviews
with selected groups, the book provides new evidence on the
lobbying strategies used during the COVID 19 pandemic, as well as
the resulting access to and lobbying influence on public policy.
The empirical analyses reach across eight European countries
(Austria, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands,
Sweden, United Kingdom), as well as the EU-level. In particular,
the book draws on responses from approximately 1,600 interest
organisations in two waves of a cross-country survey (in 2020 and
2021, respectively). This quantitative data is supplemented by
qualitative evidence from a series of 12 focus groups with
organised interests in Ireland, Denmark and the Netherlands
conducted in spring 2021.
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