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Disasters are part of the modern condition, a source of physical anxiety and existential angst, and they are increasing in frequency, cost and severity. Drawing on both disaster research and social theory, this book offers a critical examination of their causes, consequences and future avoidance.
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Genre |
: Social Science |
Author |
: Steve Matthewman |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Release |
: 2016-04-29 |
File |
: 194 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781137294265 |
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The text offers a comprehensive and unique perspective on disaster risk associated with natural hazards. It covers a wide range of topics, reflecting the most recent debates but also older and pioneering discussions in the academic field of disaster studies as well as in the policy and practical areas of disaster risk reduction (DRR). This book will be of particular interest to undergraduate students studying geography and environmental studies/science. It will also be of relevance to students/professionals from a wide range of social and physical science disciplines, including public health and public policy, sociology, anthropology, political science and geology.
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Genre |
: Science |
Author |
: Irasema Alcántara-Ayala |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Release |
: 2022-10-13 |
File |
: 552 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781315469591 |
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Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at its very core. This important book sheds light on the social conditions and on the global, national, and local processes that produce disasters. Topics covered include the social roots of disaster vulnerability, exposure to natural hazards such as hurricanes and tsunamis as a form of environmental injustice, and emerging threats. Written by a leading expert in the field, this book provides the necessary frameworks for understanding hazards and disasters, exploring the contributions of very different social science fields to disaster research and showing how these ideas have evolved over time. Bringing the social aspects of recent devastating disasters to the forefront, Tierney discusses the challenges of conducting research in the aftermath of disasters and critiques the concept of disaster resilience, which has come to be seen as a key to disaster risk reduction. Peppered with case studies, research examples, and insights from very different disciplines, this rich introduction is an invaluable resource to students and scholars interested in the social nature of disasters and their relation to broader social forces.
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Genre |
: Political Science |
Author |
: Kathleen Tierney |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Release |
: 2019-05-20 |
File |
: 327 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781509535699 |
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This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from across the Asia Pacific region, covering four main sections: 1) Governance, 2) Education and Capacity, 3) Science, Technology, Risk Assessment and Communities, and 4) Recovery. The chapters address different dimensions of Sendai Framework of Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR), which are linked to Sustainable Development Goals, as well as Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
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Genre |
: Social Science |
Author |
: Helen James |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Release |
: 2022-04-19 |
File |
: 391 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789811648113 |
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Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management provides a series of cross-disciplinary approaches and methods which are exemplified by case studies from different parts of the world. Volume 18 looks at how cities and countries recover from catastrophic disasters with a specific focus on Asia.
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Genre |
: Nature |
Author |
: William L. Waugh Jr |
Publisher |
: Emerald Group Publishing |
Release |
: 2017-09-18 |
File |
: 218 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781786352958 |
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This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the field of more-than-human studies, bringing together contemporary and essential content from leading authors across the discipline. With attention to the intellectual history of the field, its developments and extensions, its applications and its significance to contemporary society, it presents empirical studies and theoretical work covering long-established disciplines, as well as new writing on art, history, politics, planning, architecture, research methodology and ethics. An elaboration of the various dimensions of more-than-human studies, The Routledge International Handbook of More-than-Human Studies constitutes essential reading for anyone studying or researching in this field.
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Genre |
: Social Science |
Author |
: Adrian Franklin |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Release |
: 2023-11-24 |
File |
: 683 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781000992014 |
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This book raises questions about the changing relationships between technology, people and health. It examines the accelerating pace of technological development and a general shift to personalized, patient-led medicine. Such relationships are increasingly mediated through particular medical technologies, drawn together by the authors as ‘personal medical devices’ (PMDs) – devices that are attached to, worn by, interacted with, or carried by individuals for the purposes of generating biomedical data and carrying out medical interventions on the person concerned. The burgeoning PMD field is advancing rapidly across multiple domains and disciplines – so rapidly that conceptual and empirical research and thinking around PMDs, and their clinical, social and philosophical implications, often lag behind new technical developments and medical interventions. This timely and original volume explores the significant and under-researched impact of personal medical devices on contemporary understandings of health and illness. It will be a valuable read for scholars and practitioners of medicine, health, science and technology and social science.
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Genre |
: Social Science |
Author |
: Rebecca Lynch |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Release |
: 2017-10-05 |
File |
: 310 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781349952359 |
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Over the past two decades, scholars and practitioners have taken a keen interest in the field of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP). These efforts have largely focused on and debated the merits of sport as a tool for development, diplomacy, and peacebuilding in under-resourced, underdeveloped, and conflict regions. Making sense of the positive contributions that sport can offer to such complex and multi-faceted issues requires understanding the various connections and meanings that individuals and communities ascribe to their sporting experiences. This book offers a unique outlet for research that engages with, rather than makes claims about, individuals and communities around the world. Diverse, contemporary, and thought-provoking examples of qualitative methods in the study of SDP are detailed, along with rich, meaningful, and provocative insights from these studies. Readers are invited to think critically about the fields of enquiry, philosophical underpinnings, and methodologies utilised, as well as the audiences engaged and topics explored. We hope readers will join us in considering how these chapters can push the SDP field into more rigorous, methodologically innovative, and diverse approaches to research and evaluation, while also engaging with actors who are still often spoken for or about, rather than with. This book was originally published as a special issue of Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health.
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Genre |
: Sports & Recreation |
Author |
: Meredith A. Whitley |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Release |
: 2018-12-07 |
File |
: 365 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781351585279 |
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This book analyses India’s response to COVID-19, using an intersectional framework that highlights the roles of the central government, regional governments, and community organisations, both formal and informal. The volume brings forward the immense potential embedded within collective communitarian formations by exploring themes such as disaster capitalism, municipal socialism, civic capitalism, apocalypse or disaster communism, and Marxist humanism in relation to the management strategies exhibited by the Indian government towards the COVID-19 pandemic. It underscores the necessity for imagining a scenario where egalitarian and socially just policies replace the dominance of capitalism. Part of the Academics, Politics and Society in the Post-COVID World series, the book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of sociology, political studies, cultural studies, social anthropology, South Asia studies, pandemic studies, and postcolonial studies.
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Genre |
: Social Science |
Author |
: Suddhabrata Deb Roy |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Release |
: 2024-08-09 |
File |
: 329 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781040104262 |
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Genre |
: Journalism, Medical |
Author |
: Kim Walsh-Childers |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Release |
: 2024 |
File |
: 514 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783031490842 |