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Disaster upon disaster : exploring the gap between knowledge, policy, and practice /
"A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many aspects of the gap, such as driving fact...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2020
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Catastrophes in context ;
v. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many aspects of the gap, such as driving factors, risk construction, complexity of resettlement, and importance of peoples' culture, very little has gotten into protocol and procedure. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field, goes on to detail contingencies, predicaments, old and new plights, and finally advances solutions and the matter of outcomes"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource : color illustrations, color map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1789203465 9781789203462 |