Disaster Upon Disaster : : Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice / / ed. by Susanna M. Hoffma, Roberto E. Barrios.
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,...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Catastrophes in Context ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (354 p.) |
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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