Disaster upon disaster : exploring the gap between knowledge, policy, and practice / edited by Susanna M. Hoffman and Roberto E. Barrios.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Catastrophes in context ; Volume 2Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2020Edition: First editionDescription: vii, 343 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781789203455; 9781789206487 (paperback)Subject(s): Disasters -- Social aspects | Disaster relief -- Social aspects | Emergency management -- Social aspectsAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Disaster upon disasterDDC classification: 363.34 Summary: "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 the gap, such as driving factors, risk construction, complexity of resettlement, and importance of peoples' culture, very little has gotten into 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 and the matter of outcomes"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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 the gap, such as driving factors, risk construction, complexity of resettlement, and importance of peoples' culture, very little has gotten into 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 and the matter of outcomes"-- Provided by publisher.
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