Learning and Calamities
Practices, Interpretations, Patterns
It is widely assumed that humanity should be able to learn from calamities (e.g., emergencies, disasters, catastrophes) and that the affected individuals, groups, and enterprises, as well as the concerned (disaster-) management organizations and institutions for prevention and mitigation, will be able to be better prepared or more efficient next time. Furthermore, it is often assumed that the results of these learning processes are preserved as &quote;knowledge&quote; in the collective memory of a society, and that patterns of practices were adopted on this base. Within history, there is more evidence for the opposite: Analyzing past…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Schorch, Marén (Hrsg.) / Voss, Martin (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-134-47588-9
- EAN: 9781134475889
- Produktnummer: 17040530
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 334 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'345 KB
- Abbildungen: 17 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 7 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 10 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 2 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Heike Egner is Professor of Geography and Regional Studies at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (Austria). Marén Schorch is a Research Assistant at the University of Siegen (Germany). Martin Voss is head of the Disaster Research Unit at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany).
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