Disaster Upon Disaster : : Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice / / ed. by Susanna M. Hoffma, Roberto E. Barrios.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Barrios, Roberto E.,; Bender, Stephen,; Bergman, Ann,; Browne, Katherine E.,; Fiske, Shirley J,; Hoffman, Susanna M.,; Jeggle, Terry,; Koons, Adam,; Lazrus, Heather,; Marino, Elizabeth,; Maxwell, Keely,; Morimoto, Ryo,; Murphy Thomas, Jane,; Oliver-Smith, Anthony,; Phillips, Brenda D.,; Schuller, Mark,
• HerausgeberIn: Barrios, Roberto E.,; Hoffma, Susanna M.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Catastrophes in Context ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (354 p.)

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 disasters, such as driving factors, risk construction, complexity of resettlement, and importance of peoples’ culture, very little has become 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 toward greatly improved outcomes.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Defining Disaster upon Disaster: Why Risk Prevention and Disaster Response So Often Fail -- Part I. Illuminating the Fissures: Suppositions, Realities, Agendas, and Execution -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Unwieldy Disasters: Engaging the Multiple Gaps and Connections That Make Catastrophes -- Chapter 2. Advocacy and Accomplishment: Contrasting Challenges to Successful Disaster Risk Management -- Chapter 3. Natural Hazard Events into Disasters: The Gaps between Knowledge, Policy, and Practice as It Affects the Built Environment through Development -- Chapter 4. Humanitarian Response: Ideals Meet Reality -- Chapter 5. Disaster Theory versus Practice? It Is a Long Rocky Road: A Practitioner’s View from the Ground -- Part II. Situations and Expositions: Plights, Problems, and Quandaries -- Chapter 6. Slow-Onset Disaster: Climate Change and the Gaps between Knowledge, Policy, and Practice -- Chapter 7. Disrupting Gendered Outcomes: Addressing Disaster Vulnerability through Stakeholder Participation -- Chapter 8. Resettlement for Disaster Risk Reduction: Global Knowledge, Local Application -- Chapter 9. From Nuclear Things to Things Nuclear: Minding the Gap at the Knowledge-Policy-Practice Nexus in Post-Fallout Fukushima -- Chapter 10. “Haitians Need to Be Patient”: Notes on Policy Advocacy in Washington Following Haiti’s Earthquake -- Part III. Revamping Apparatus and Outcome -- Chapter 11. The Scope and Importance of Anthropology and Its Core Concept of Culture in Closing the Disaster Knowledge to Policy and Practice Gap -- Chapter 12. Engaged: Applying the Anthropology of Disaster to Practitioner Settings and Policy Creation -- Chapter 13. Future Matter Matters: Disasters as a (Potential) Vehicle for Social Change—It’s About Time -- Index