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1 online resource (299 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change |
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Routledge studies in hazards, disaster risk, and climate change.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction: exploring the links between cultures and disasters; Part 1 The culture of (de- )constructing disasters; 1 Framing disaster in the 'global village': cultures of rationality in risk, security and news; 2 Conversations in catastrophe: neoliberalism and the cultural construction of disaster risk; 3 Design by disasters: seismic architecture and cultural adaptation to earthquakes |
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4 'Learning from history'? Chances, problems and limits of learning from historical natural disasters5 Disasters, climate change and the significance of 'culture'; Part 2 Cultural linkages to vulnerability; 6 Cultures and contra-cultures: social divisions and behavioural origins of vulnerabilities to disaster risk; 7 The cultural sense of disasters: practices and singularities in the context of HIV/AIDS; 8 Religion and belief systems: drivers of vulnerability, entry points for resilience building?; 9 The deep roots of nightmares; Part 3 Unequal risks: staging and reducing disaster risk |
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10 Celebrity culture, entertainment values ... and disaster11 Disaster management culture in Bangladesh: the enrolment of local knowledge by decision makers; 12 Culture's role in disaster risk reduction: combining knowledge systems on small island developing states (SIDS); 13 Culture, gender and disaster: from vulnerability to capacities; 14 A culture of resilience and preparedness: the 'last mile' case study of tsunami risk in Padang, Indonesia; 15 Participative vulnerability and resilience assessment and the example of the Tao people (Taiwan); Index |
| Summary |
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 under |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bankoff, Greg
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Cannon, Terry
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Orlowski, Benedikt
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Schipper, E. Lisa F
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| ISBN |
9781317754640 |
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1317754646 |
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