Cultures and Disasters

ISBN 10: 0415745586 / ISBN 13: 9780415745581

Verlag: Taylor and Francis, 2015

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Inhaltsangabe:

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 understand how people experience and prioritize hazards in their own lives and how vulnerability can be reduced, and resilience increased, at a local level. Culture and Disasters adopts an interdisciplinary approach to explore this cultural dimension of disaster, with contributions from leading international experts within the field.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Fred Krüger is Professor of Geography at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Greg Bankoff is Professor of Modern History at the University of Hull, UK.

Terry Cannon is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, UK.

Benedikt Orlowski is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Geography, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

E. Lisa F. Schipper is a Research Associate at the Overseas Development Institute, London, UK, and Associate at the Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Cultures and Disasters
Verlag: Taylor and Francis
Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
Einband: HRD
Zustand: New