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Disaster Upon Disaster

Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice
Buch | Softcover
354 Seiten
2019
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-648-7 (ISBN)
CHF 52,90 inkl. MwSt
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. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field and advances solutions and the matter of outcomes.
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.

Susanna M. Hoffman is author, co-author, and editor of twelve books, including The Angry Earth 1 & 2 and Catastrophe and Culture, two ethnographic films, and over forty articles. She initiated the Risk and Disaster Thematic Interest Group at the Society for Applied Anthropology, is the founder and chair of the Risk and Disaster Commission for the International Union of Anthropology and Ethnographic Sciences, and was the first recipient of the Aegean Initiative Fulbright concerning the Greek and Turkish earthquakes.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments



Introduction: Defining Disaster Upon Disaster: Why Risk Prevention and Disaster Response So Often Fail

Susanna M. Hoffman



PART I: ILLUMINATING THE FISSURES: SUPPOSITIONS, REALITIES, AGENDAS, AND EXECUTION



Chapter 1. Unwieldy Disasters: Engaging the Multiple Gaps and Connections That Make Catastrophes

Roberto E. Barrios



Chapter 2. Advocacy and Accomplishment: Contrasting Challenges to Successful Disaster Risk Management

Terry Jeggle



Chapter 3. Natural Hazard Events into Disasters: The Gap between Knowledge, Policy, and Practice as it Affects the Built Environment

Stephen Bender



Chapter 4. Humanitarian Response:  Ideals Meet Reality

Adam Koons



Chapter 5. Disaster Theory Versus Practice? It’s a Long Rocky Road - A Practitioner’s View from the Ground

Jane Murphy Thomas



PART II: SITUATIONS AND EXPOSITIONS: PLIGHTS, PROBLEMS AND QUANDRIES



Chapter 6. Slow On-Set Disaster: Climate Change and the Gaps Between Knowledge, Policy, and Practice

Shirley J. Fiske and Elizabeth Marino



Chapter 7. Disrupting Gendered Outcomes: Addressing Disaster Vulnerability Through Stakeholder Participation

Brenda D. Phillips



Chapter 8. Resettlement for Disaster Risk Reduction: Global Knowledge, Local Application

Anthony Oliver-Smith



Chapter 9. From Nuclear Things to Things Nuclear: Minding the Gap at the Knowledge-Policy-Practice Nexus in Post-Fallout Fukushima

Ryo Morimoto



Chapter 10.  “Haitians Need to be Patient” - Notes on Policy Advocacy in Washington Following Haiti’s Earthquake

Mark Schuller



PART III: REVAMPING APPARATUS AND OUTCOME



Chapter 11. The Scope and Importance of Anthropology and its Core Concept of Culture in Closing the Risk and Disaster Knowledge to Policy and Practice Gap

Susanna M. Hoffman



Chapter 12. Engaged: Applying the Anthropology of Disaster to Practitioner Settings and Policy Creation

Katherine E. Browne, Elizabeth Marino, Heather Lazrus, and Keely Maxwell



Chapter 13. Future Matter Matters: Disasters as a (Potential) Vehicle for Social Change. It’s About Time

Ann Bergman



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Catastrophes in Context
Zusatzinfo 5 Illustrations
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-78920-648-0 / 1789206480
ISBN-13 978-1-78920-648-7 / 9781789206487
Zustand Neuware
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