Disaster upon disaster: exploring the gap between knowledge, policy, and practice
by Barrios, Roberto E. Hoffman, Susannah M.
"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 bet…
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- Full title :Disaster upon disaster : exploring the gap between knowledge, policy, and practice / edited by Susanna M. Hoffman and Roberto E. Barrios.
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"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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- Publication Date:©2020
- Edition:First edition
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- Publisher(s):Berghahn Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2020
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- Description:1 online resource : : color illustrations, color map
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1789203465, 9781789203462
- oclc:on1119063251
- LC Classification:HV553
- Dewey Decimal:363.34
Table of Contents
Introduction : defining disaster upon disaster : why risk prevention and disaster response so often fail / Susanna M. Hoffman -- Unwieldy disasters : engaging the multiple gaps and connections that make catastrophes / Roberto E. Barrios -- Advocacy and accomplishment : contrasting challenges to successful disaster risk management / Terry Jeggle -- Natural hazard events into disasters : the gaps between knowledge, policy, and practice as it affects the built environment through development / Stephen Bender -- Humanitarian response : ideals meet reality / Adam Koons -- Disaster theory versus practice? : it is a long rocky road : a practitioner's view from the ground / Jane Murphy Thomas -- Slow-onset disaster : climate change and the gaps between knowledge, policy, and practice / Shirley J. Fiske and Elizabeth Marino -- Disrupting gendered outcomes : addressing disaster vulnerability through stakeholder participation / Brenda D. Phillips -- Resettlement for disaster risk reduction : global knowledge, local application / Anthony Oliver-Smith -- From nuclear things to things nuclear : minding the gap at the knowledge-policy-practice nexus in post-fallout Fukushima / Ryo Morimoto -- "H…
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