Disaster Management

International Lessons in Risk Reduction, Response and Recovery
Herausgeber: Lopez-Carresi, Alejandro; Wisner, Ben; Fordham, Maureen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9780415717441
• ISBN-10: 0415717442
• Artikelnr.: 42434636

Autorenporträt

Alejandro López-Carresi is founder and director of CEDEM Centre for Disaster and Emergency Management in Madrid, Spain. Maureen Fordham is Principal Lecturer and Enterprise Fellow at the Department of Geography, Northumbria University, UK. Ben Wisner, who has worked in development and hazards for 47 years, is a research affiliate at University College London, UK. Ilan Kelman is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo (CICERO) in Norway. JC Gaillard is an Associate Professor in the School of Environment at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction:who what and why? Part 1: Prevention and Risk Reduction 2.
Hazard, Vulnerability, Capacity, Risk and Participation 3. Gender aspects
of Disaster Management 4. Community-based Disaster risk reduction and
Disaster Management 5. People-centred early warning 6. Disaster Education
in schools 7.Many strong voices for Climate Change Education: examples from
Belize and Timor-Leste Part 2: Response and Recovery 8. Managing
infrastructure, environment and disaster risk 9. emergency and disaster
planning 10. common myths and misconceptions in Disaster Management 11.
Health aspects of Disaster Management 12. Disaster insurance for the poor
13. Post-disaster recovery planning: Introductory notes on its challenges
and potentials Part 3: Regional Perspectives 14. Experiences from
Sub-Saharan Africa 15. Disaster Risk Management in Latin America and the
Caribbean: Four decades of evolution and change, 1970 to 2010 16. Disaster
Risk Management in the Asia-Pacific: emerging trends and directions 17.
Integrating people's capacities in Disaster Risk Reduction through
participatory mapping, 18. A knowledge integration tool for Disaster Risk
Reduction including Climate Change 19. Conclusion: Addressing all
vulnerabilities