Disaster Prevention Policies: A Challenging and Critical Outlook - Hardcover

Pigeon, Patrick; Rebotier, Julien

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1785481967 ISBN 13: 9781785481963

Verlag: ISTE Press - Elsevier, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

This book addresses disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies, focusing on reducing the paradox that exists between the compulsory implementation of DRR policies and continuing limitationsThe authors use their knowledge of the ever-evolving threats associated with disasters and their prevention to investigate this famous paradox and propose solutions that will help readers understand and reconsider its existence.The authors also discuss conditionings behind this paradox, helping readers understand the existing solutions, also suggesting how to reduce the limitations of DRR policies.

• Offers a fresh perspective on the assessments currently available on disaster and DRR policies
• Provides insight based on examples of DRR policies taken from Latin American, Asian, and European cases
• Focuses on reducing the paradox that exists between the compulsory implementation of DRR policies and continuing limitations

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Patrick Pigeon lectures in Geography at the University of Savoie-Mont-Blanc in France. His research focuses on geomorphology and risks geography.

Julien Rebotier is a researcher at the SET Laboratory of CNRS in Pau, France. His research interests include social and political geography of the environment and political ecology discourses.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: ISTE Press - Elsevier
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1785481967
• ISBN 13: 9781785481963
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 242
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Barbara Criscuolo; b.criscuolo@lswr.it; ; Via Spadolini, 7; Milano; 20141; Italien