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Naim (Hrsg.) Kapucu

Disaster Resiliency

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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Natural disasters in recent years have brought the study of disaster resiliency to the forefront. The importance of community preparedness and sustainability has been underscored by such calamities as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Japanese tsunami in 2011. Natural disasters will inevitably continue to occur, but by understanding the concept of resiliency as well as the factors that lead to it, communities can minimize their vulnerabilities and increase their resilience.a In this volume, editors Naim Kapucu, Christopher V. Hawkins, and Fernando I. Rivera gather an impressive array of scholars to provide a much needed re-think to the topi… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Hawkins, Christopher V. (Hrsg.) / Rivera, Fernando I. (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-136-23995-3
  • EAN: 9781136239953
  • Produktnummer: 14501341
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 436 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor


Naim Kapucu is a Professor at the School of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He is the founding director of the Center for Public and Nonprofit Management (CPNM) at UCF (2008-2011). He has developed Emergency Management and Homeland Security graduate certificate and undergraduate minor programs at UCF. Dr. Kapucu has published widely in areas of public policy and administration, crisis leadership, nonprofit management, and disaster management. Christopher Hawkins is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida. His research has focused on metropolitan governance, local economic development, smart growth, sustainability and application of network analysis to understanding planning and policy decisionsFernando I. Rivera is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Central Florida. His research interests and activities fall under staple areas of sociology, primarily the sociology of mental health, race and ethnicity, medical sociology and sociology of disasters.

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