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Learning and Calamities - Practices, Interpretations, Patterns (Hardcover)
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Learning and Calamities - Practices, Interpretations, Patterns (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Environment, Culture, and Society
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It is widely assumed that humanity should be able to learn from
calamities (e.g., emergencies, disasters, catastrophes) and that
the affected individuals, groups, and enterprises, as well as the
concerned (disaster-) management organizations and institutions for
prevention and mitigation, will be able to be better prepared or
more efficient next time. Furthermore, it is often assumed that the
results of these learning processes are preserved as "knowledge" in
the collective memory of a society, and that patterns of practices
were adopted on this base. Within history, there is more evidence
for the opposite: Analyzing past calamities reveals that there is
hardly any learning and, if so, that it rarely lasts more than one
or two generations. This book explores whether learning in the
context of calamities happens at all, and if learning takes place,
under which conditions it can be achieved and what would be
required to ensure that learned cognitive and practical knowledge
will endure on a societal level. The contributions of this book
include various fields of scientific research: history, sociology,
geography, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, development studies and
political studies, as well as disaster research and disaster risk
reduction research.
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