Understanding and addressing disaster risk Who speaks? Who suffers? / Ben Wisner, Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, JC Gaillard, Ilan Kelman, and Victor Marchezini.
| Author/creator | Wisner, Ben |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Alcántara, Irasema http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009027487 http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/no2009027487. |
| Other author/creator | Gaillard, J. C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2011009345 http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n2011009345. |
| Other author/creator | Kelman, Ilan http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2011008361 http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n2011008361. |
| Other author/creator | Marchezini, Victor http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014206785 http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n2014206785. |
| Contents | The challenges of disaster -- Framing disaster risk reduction -- Abilities -- The living world -- Water, weather, and climate -- Earthly hazards : earthquakes and volcanoes -- Living with tsunamis and landslides -- Beyond the earth -- Disaster risk construction -- Understanding risk and living life -- Afterword: Head and heart : compassion and anger in disaster studies and action. |
| Abstract | "In Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk, the authors explain how people modify the environment and exert power over each other in ways that make nature potentially harmful and put people in harm's way. Opportunities and challenges faced by those engaging with disaster risk are explored. Across eleven chapters, the authors show that disasters are not natural, are not events, and do not happen quickly. Instead, they are the result of chronic societal processes emerging from the creation and perpetuation of vulnerabilities and limitations on people's abilities to respond to hazards. The book also explores the environmental component of disaster risk through the lens of different natural elements and phenomena, including biological-ecological and water-weather-climate processes as well as geological and outer space dynamics. The authors explain the mutual influence of the different components of disasters in creating disaster risk across diverse regions of the world. They critique attempts to reduce disaster risk through top-down, siloed assumptions, attitudes, and values. The value of people's knowledge of hazards - often ignored or dismissed by authorities - is a central theme. This book is original because of how it re-interprets and advances understanding of the disaster process through the study of such societal processes of vulnerability, risk creation, and power imbalances. It is also unique in diving further into "root causes" of disaster in order to place them within local histories and colonial legacies as well as contemporary, typically misdirected, agendas while upending previous "solutions" which have been shown to do more harm than good. Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk is useful for and useable by decision makers, policy makers, researchers and students to shatter the vicious cycle of repeating known mistakes which compound detrimental outcomes"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024057929 |
| ISBN | 9781040353882 epub |
| ISBN | 9781003292814 ebook |
| ISBN | hardback |
| ISBN | paperback |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |