Resilience imperative: uncertainty, risks and disasters

by Reghezza-Zitt, Magali Rufat, Samuel

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Full title :Resilience imperative : uncertainty, risks and disasters / edited by Magali Reghezza-Zitt, Samuel Rufat.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Elsevier Ltd, ISTE Press Ltd
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

The Physical Object

Description:xix, 241 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781785480515, 1785480510
oclc:ocn936327474
LC Classification:HV553
Dewey Decimal:363.34/8

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Defining Resilience: When the Concept Resists / Damienne Provitolo -- 1.1.A multidisciplinary construct -- 1.1.1.Material physics: resilience and resistance -- 1.1.2.Psychology: resilience, processes and properties of overcoming, reconstruction and reinforcement -- 1.1.3.Ecology: resilience, persistence and adaptation -- 1.2.Transfers in cindynics -- 1.2.1.The early 2000s -- 1.2.2.A response to theoretical and methodological issues -- 1.3.Defining resilience -- 1.3.1.The "rainbow" of meanings -- 1.3.2.Recognizing resilience -- 1.4.Two concepts for a single word -- 1.4.1.Resilience in the "techno-centric" paradigm -- 1.4.2.Resilience in the social sciences -- 1.5.Conclusion -- 1.6.Bibliography -- ch. 2 Resilience and Vulnerability: From Opposition towards a Continuum / Magali Reghezza-Zitt -- 2.1.One or several vulnerabilities? -- 2.1.1.Biophysical vulnerability -- 2.1.2.Social vulnerability -- 2.1.3.Territorial vulnerability -- 2.2.The vulnerability/resilience pair -- 2.2.1.Resilience as the opposite of vulnerability -- 2.2.2.Resilience as a component of vulnerability -- 2.3.Beyond opposition: the notion of "resiliencery vulnerability" -- 2.3…

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Disaster Planning -- organization & adm… Disaster relief Emergency management Planification sociale Relief Work Risk Management -- organization & admin… Secours aux victimes de catastrophes Social Control Policies Social Planning