Disaster Management
International Lessons in Risk Reduction, Response and Recovery
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 assum…
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Weitere Autoren: Fordham, Maureen (Hrsg.) / Wisner, Ben (Hrsg.) / Kelman, Ilan (Hrsg.) / Gaillard, Jc (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-136-17977-8
- EAN: 9781136179778
- Produktnummer: 16983464
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'337 KB
- Abbildungen: 52 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 34 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 18 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
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.
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