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Resilience in the Pacific and the Caribbean - The Local Construction of Disaster Risk Reduction (Paperback)
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Resilience in the Pacific and the Caribbean - The Local Construction of Disaster Risk Reduction (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Resilience
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This book critically examines the global diffusion and local
reception of resilience through the implementation of Disaster Risk
Reduction (DRR) programmes in Pacific and Caribbean island states.
Global efforts to strengthen local disaster resilience capacities
have become a staple of international development activity in
recent decades, yet the successful implementation of DRR projects
designed to strengthen local resilience remains elusive. While
there are pockets of success, a gap remains between global
expectations and local realities. Through a critical realist study
of global and local worldviews of resilience in the Pacific and
Caribbean islands, this book argues that the global advocacy of DRR
remains inadequate because of a failure to prioritise a
person-orientated ethics in its conceptualization of disaster
resilience. This regional comparison provides a valuable lens to
understand the underlying social structures that makes resilience
possible and the extent to which local governments, communities and
persons interpret and modify their behaviour on risk when faced
with the global message on resilience. This book will be of much
interest to students of resilience, risk management, development
studies, and area studies.
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