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This theoretical contribution argues that the domination of Western
knowledge in disaster scholarship has allowed normative policies
and practices of disaster risk reduction to be imposed all over the
world. It takes a postcolonial approach to unpack why scholars
claim that disasters are social constructs while offering little
but theories, concepts and methods supposed to be universal in
understanding the unique and diverse experiences of millions of
people across very different cultures. It further challenges forms
of governments inherited from the Enlightenment that have been
rolled out as standard and ultimate solutions to reduce the risk of
disaster. Ultimately, the book encourages the emergence of a more
diverse set of world views/senses and ways of knowing for both
studying disasters and informing policy and practice of disaster
risk reduction. Such pluralism is essential to better reflect local
realities of what disasters actually are around the world. This
book is an essential read for scholars and postgraduate students
interested in disaster studies as well as policy-makers and
practitioners of disaster risk reduction.
The Routledge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate
Change Adaptation aims to provide an overview and critique of the
current state of knowledge, policy, and practice, encouraging
engagement, and reflection on bringing the two sectors together.
This long-awaited and welcomed volume makes a compelling case that
a common research agenda and a series of practical policies and
policy recommendations can and should be put in place. Over 40
contributions explore DRR including CCA in five parts. The first
part presents and interrogates much of the typical vocabulary seen
in DRR including CCA, not only pointing out the useful and
not-so-useful dimensions, but also providing alternatives and
positive examples. The second part explains how to move forward
creating and supporting positive crossovers and connections, while
the third one explores some aspects of multi-dimensional approaches
to knowing and understanding. The fourth part argues for a balanced
approach to governance, taking both governmental and
non-governmental governance, as well as different scales of
governance, into consideration. The final part of the Handbook
emphasises DRR including CCA as an investment, rather than a cost,
and connects its further implementation with livelihoods of people
around the world. This handbook highlights the connections amongst
the processes of dealing with disasters and dealing with climate
change. It demonstrates how little climate change brings which is
new and emphasises the strengths of placing climate change within
wider contexts in order to draw on all our strengths while
overcoming limitations with specialities. It will prove to be a
valuable guide for graduate and advanced undergraduate students,
academics, policy makers, and practitioners with an interest in
disaster risk reduction and climate change.
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Disaster Risk (Hardcover)
Irasema Alcantara-Ayala, Christopher Gomez, Ksenia Chmutina, Dewald van Niekerk, Emmanuel Raju, …
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R3,305
Discovery Miles 33 050
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The text offers a comprehensive and unique perspective on disaster
risk associated with natural hazards. It covers a wide range of
topics, reflecting the most recent debates but also older and
pioneering discussions in the academic field of disaster studies as
well as in the policy and practical areas of disaster risk
reduction (DRR). This book will be of particular interest to
undergraduate students studying geography and environmental
studies/science. It will also be of relevance to
students/professionals from a wide range of social and physical
science disciplines, including public health and public policy,
sociology, anthropology, political science and geology.
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Disaster Risk (Hardcover)
Ben Wisner, J.C. Gaillard, Ilan Kelman
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R36,198
Discovery Miles 361 980
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Especially in an era of rapid global environmental change,
questions and issues about and around natural hazards and disasters
are dizzying in their complexity-and urgency. Answering the need
for an authoritative reference work to make sense of this
fast-moving area, and its vast and multidisciplinary corpus of
scholarly literature, Disaster Risk is a new title from the
acclaimed Routledge series, Critical Concepts in the Environment.
Edited by a trio of expert researchers, this new collection of
major works embraces a wide variety of methodological traditions to
bring together in four volumes the foundational and the very best
cutting-edge scholarship. The collection enables users to
access-and to make sense of-the most important research and
practice. It provides a synoptic view of all the key issues,
current debates, and controversies. Disaster Risk is fully indexed
and includes comprehensive introductions, newly written by the
editors, which place the collected materials in their historical
and intellectual context. It is an essential reference collection
and is destined to be valued by scholars and students-as well as
policy-makers and practitioners-as a vital one-stop research and
pedagogic resource. oe oe oe Disaster Risk is edited by three
leading scholars in the field: Ben Wisner, formerly Director of
International Studies at California State University at Long Beach,
with a long career before that in research and teaching. He is
presently engaged in full-time research and writing and has
recently completed a four-year project for the United Nations
University on defining and managing urban social vulnerability to
disasters in six megacities (Johannesburg, Tokyo, Manila, Mumbai,
Mexico City, and Los Angeles). The other co-editors of this
Routledge Major Works collection are J. C. Gaillard of the
University of Auckland, New Zealand; and Ilan Kelman, based at the
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo,
Norway.
This theoretical contribution argues that the domination of Western
knowledge in disaster scholarship has allowed normative policies
and practices of disaster risk reduction to be imposed all over the
world. It takes a postcolonial approach to unpack why scholars
claim that disasters are social constructs while offering little
but theories, concepts and methods supposed to be universal in
understanding the unique and diverse experiences of millions of
people across very different cultures. It further challenges forms
of governments inherited from the Enlightenment that have been
rolled out as standard and ultimate solutions to reduce the risk of
disaster. Ultimately, the book encourages the emergence of a more
diverse set of world views/senses and ways of knowing for both
studying disasters and informing policy and practice of disaster
risk reduction. Such pluralism is essential to better reflect local
realities of what disasters actually are around the world. This
book is an essential read for scholars and postgraduate students
interested in disaster studies as well as policy-makers and
practitioners of disaster risk reduction.
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Disaster Risk (Paperback)
Irasema Alcantara-Ayala, Christopher Gomez, Ksenia Chmutina, Dewald van Niekerk, Emmanuel Raju, …
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R1,223
Discovery Miles 12 230
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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The text offers a comprehensive and unique perspective on disaster
risk associated with natural hazards. It covers a wide range of
topics, reflecting the most recent debates but also older and
pioneering discussions in the academic field of disaster studies as
well as in the policy and practical areas of disaster risk
reduction (DRR). This book will be of particular interest to
undergraduate students studying geography and environmental
studies/science. It will also be of relevance to
students/professionals from a wide range of social and physical
science disciplines, including public health and public policy,
sociology, anthropology, political science and geology.
The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point
for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an
international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical
reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future
development of conceptual, theoretical and practical approaches as
well as empirical knowledge and available tools. Organised into
five inter-related sections, this Handbook contains sixty-five
contributions from leading scholars. Section One situates hazards
and disasters in their broad political, cultural, economic, and
environmental context. Section Two contains treatments of
potentially damaging natural events/phenomena organized by major
earth system. Section Three critically reviews progress in
responding to disasters including warning, relief and recovery.
Section Four addresses mitigation of potential loss and prevention
of disasters under two sub-headings: governance, advocacy and
self-help, and communication and participation. Section Five ends
with a concluding chapter by the editors. The engaging
international contributions reflect upon the politics and policy of
how we think about and practice applied hazard research and
disaster risk reduction. This Handbook provides a wealth of
interdisciplinary information and will appeal to students and
practitioners interested in Geography, Environment Studies and
Development Studies.
The goal of this book is to explore disaster risk reduction (DRR),
migration, climate change adaptation (CCA) and sustainable
development linkages from a number of different geographical,
social and natural science angles. Well-known scientists and
practitioners present different perspectives regarding these
inter-linkages from around the world, with theoretical discussions
as well as field observations. This publication contributes in
particular to the discussion on the Sendai Framework for Disaster
Risk Reduction (SFDRR) 2015-2030 and the debate about how to
improve DRR, including CCA, policies and practices, taking into
account migration processes from a large perspective where both
natural and social factors are crucial and mutually "alloyed". Some
authors see the SFDRR as a positive step forward in terms of
embracing a multitude of issues, others doubting that the agreement
will lead to much concrete action toward real action on the ground.
This book is a timely contribution for researchers, students and
policy makers in the fields of environment, human geography,
migration, disaster and climate change studies who seek a more
comprehensive grasp of contemporary development issues.
The goal of this book is to explore disaster risk reduction (DRR),
migration, climate change adaptation (CCA) and sustainable
development linkages from a number of different geographical,
social and natural science angles. Well-known scientists and
practitioners present different perspectives regarding these
inter-linkages from around the world, with theoretical discussions
as well as field observations. This publication contributes in
particular to the discussion on the Sendai Framework for Disaster
Risk Reduction (SFDRR) 2015-2030 and the debate about how to
improve DRR, including CCA, policies and practices, taking into
account migration processes from a large perspective where both
natural and social factors are crucial and mutually "alloyed". Some
authors see the SFDRR as a positive step forward in terms of
embracing a multitude of issues, others doubting that the agreement
will lead to much concrete action toward real action on the ground.
This book is a timely contribution for researchers, students and
policy makers in the fields of environment, human geography,
migration, disaster and climate change studies who seek a more
comprehensive grasp of contemporary development issues.
There is a perennial gap between theory and practice, between
academia and active professionals in the field of disaster
management. This gap means that valuable lessons are not learned
and people die or suffer as a result. This book opens a dialogue
between theory and practice. It offers vital lessons to
practitioners from scholarship on natural hazards, disaster risk
management and reduction and developments studies, opening up new
insights in accessible language with practical applications. It
also offers to academics the insights of the enormous experience
practitioners have accumulated, highlighting gaps in research and
challenging assumptions and theories against the reality of
experience. Disaster Management covers issues in all phases of the
disaster cycle: preparedness, prevention, response and recovery. It
also addresses cross-cutting issues including political, economic
and social factors that influence differential vulnerability, and
key areas of practice such as vulnerability mapping, early warning,
infrastructure protection, emergency management, reconstruction,
health care and education, and gender issues. The team of
international authors combine their years of experience in research
and the field to offer vital lessons for practitioners, academics
and students alike.
There is a perennial gap between theory and practice, between
academia and active professionals in the field of disaster
management. This gap means that valuable lessons are not learned
and people die or suffer as a result. This book opens a dialogue
between theory and practice. It offers vital lessons to
practitioners from scholarship on natural hazards, disaster risk
management and reduction and developments studies, opening up new
insights in accessible language with practical applications. It
also offers to academics the insights of the enormous experience
practitioners have accumulated, highlighting gaps in research and
challenging assumptions and theories against the reality of
experience. Disaster Management covers issues in all phases of the
disaster cycle: preparedness, prevention, response and recovery. It
also addresses cross-cutting issues including political, economic
and social factors that influence differential vulnerability, and
key areas of practice such as vulnerability mapping, early warning,
infrastructure protection, emergency management, reconstruction,
health care and education, and gender issues. The team of
international authors combine their years of experience in research
and the field to offer vital lessons for practitioners, academics
and students alike.
The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point
for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an
international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical
reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future
development of conceptual, theoretical and practical approaches as
well as empirical knowledge and available tools. Organized into
five inter-related sections, this Handbook contains sixty-five
contributions from leading scholars. Section one situates hazards
and disasters in their broad political, cultural, economic, and
environmental context. Section two contains treatments of
potentially damaging natural events/phenomena organized by major
earth system. Section three critically reviews progress in
responding to disasters including warning, relief and recovery.
Section four addresses mitigation of potential loss and prevention
of disasters under two sub-headings: governance, advocacy and
self-help, and communication and participation. Section five ends
with a concluding chapter by the editors. The engaging
international contributions reflect upon the politics and policy of
how we think about and practice applied hazard research and
disaster risk reduction. This Handbook provides a wealth of
interdisciplinary information and will appeal to students and
practitioners interested in Geography, Environment Studies and
Development Studies.
The Routledge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate
Change Adaptation aims to provide an overview and critique of the
current state of knowledge, policy, and practice, encouraging
engagement, and reflection on bringing the two sectors together.
This long-awaited and welcomed volume makes a compelling case that
a common research agenda and a series of practical policies and
policy recommendations can and should be put in place. Over 40
contributions explore DRR including CCA in five parts. The first
part presents and interrogates much of the typical vocabulary seen
in DRR including CCA, not only pointing out the useful and
not-so-useful dimensions, but also providing alternatives and
positive examples. The second part explains how to move forward
creating and supporting positive crossovers and connections, while
the third one explores some aspects of multi-dimensional approaches
to knowing and understanding. The fourth part argues for a balanced
approach to governance, taking both governmental and
non-governmental governance, as well as different scales of
governance, into consideration. The final part of the Handbook
emphasises DRR including CCA as an investment, rather than a cost,
and connects its further implementation with livelihoods of people
around the world. This handbook highlights the connections amongst
the processes of dealing with disasters and dealing with climate
change. It demonstrates how little climate change brings which is
new and emphasises the strengths of placing climate change within
wider contexts in order to draw on all our strengths while
overcoming limitations with specialities. It will prove to be a
valuable guide for graduate and advanced undergraduate students,
academics, policy makers, and practitioners with an interest in
disaster risk reduction and climate change.
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