Cultures and Disasters
Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction
Why did the people of the Zambesi Delta affected by severe flooding return early to their homes or even choose to not evacuate? How is the forced resettlement of small-scale farmers living along the foothills of an active volcano on the Philippines impacting on their day-to-day livelihood routines? Making sense of such questions and observations is only possible by understanding how the decision-making of societies at risk is embedded in culture, and how intervention measures acknowledge, or neglect, cultural settings. The social construction of risk is being given increasing priority in understand how people experience and prioritize hazards…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Bankoff, Greg (Hrsg.) / Cannon, Terry (Hrsg.) / Orlowski, Benedikt (Hrsg.) / Schipper, E. Lisa F. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-317-75463-3
- EAN: 9781317754633
- Produktnummer: 18411406
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 298 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 12 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 2 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 10 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 3 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Fred Krüger is Professor of Geography at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.Greg Bankoff is Professor of Modern History at the University of Hull, UK.Terry Cannon is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, UK.Benedikt Orlowski is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Geography, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.E. Lisa F. Schipper is a Research Associate at the Overseas Development Institute, London, UK, and Associate at the Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden.
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