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Disaster prevention policies : a challenging and critical outlook /
This book addresses disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies, focusing on reducing the paradox that exists between the compulsory implementation of DRR policies and continuing limitations.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London : Oxford, UK :
ISTE Press Ltd ; Elsevier Ltd,
2016.
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| Colección: | Earth system -- environmental sciences.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Pigeon, Patrick, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Disaster prevention policies : |b a challenging and critical outlook / |c Patrick Pigeon, Julien Rebotier. |
| 264 | 1 | |a London : |b ISTE Press Ltd ; |a Oxford, UK : |b Elsevier Ltd, |c 2016. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c �2016 | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (xix, 220 pages) : |b illustrations, maps | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-218) and index. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Front Cover ; Disaster Prevention Policies: A Challenging and Critical Outlook ; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1. Disaster Prevention Policies: Paradoxical and Ambiguous Assessments; Chapter 1. The Rise in Knowledge and Policies Suggest an Increase in Disasters; 1.1. According to the EM-DAT and DesInventar databases, the number of disasters would increase; 1.2. Disaster prevention policies are proliferating on every scale; 1.3. Research on disasters and their prevention is also increasing; Chapter 2. The Contributions to Disaster Prevention are Difficult to Assess. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 2.1. Disasters are not increasing according to all databases2.2. Not necessarily more disasters, but definitely more to lose; 2.3. There is not always more mortality associated with disasters; 2.4. The markets interested in disaster prevention; Part 2. Understanding and Managing Disaster Risk: The Multiple Limits of Specialized Approaches; Chapter 3. The Limits of Understanding Disasters; 3.1. The place and status of inherent uncertainty in databases; 3.2. Disaster risk: ambiguous definitions; 3.3. The difficult search for a conceptual model of disaster prevention. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 4. The Limits of Disaster Prevention: Returns on Management Experiences4.1. Returns on experience demonstrate the universal character of the limits; 4.2. Dike risk in France: an example of unintended consequences; 4.3. Segmentation and politicization of risk management in Ecuador; Part 3 Why and How Does the Prevention of Disasters Necessitate Thinking and Acting in an Imperfect World?; Chapter 5. The Principle of Cognitive Limits: Its Application to Disaster Prevention; 5.1. The analytical basis: the Cartesian method and the fragmentation of notions. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 5.2. Reconstitution of the analytical foundation: Pascal and the systemic attempts5.3. The limitations of analytical reconstitution: Bergson's intuition; Chapter 6. Bridging the Gap between Disaster Prevention and Environmental Concerns; 6.1. The gradual contributions of environmental interpretations to disaster prevention ; 6.2. Advantages and disadvantages for the increase in complexity for disaster prevention; Chapter 7. Reflections upon the Contribution of Social Geography to Disaster Prevention; 7.1. What epistemologies are necessary to develop environmental knowledge? | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 7.2. Under what conditions do social sciences contribute to disaster prevention?7.3. What contributions do social sciences make to both disaster prevention and acting in an imperfect world?; Chapter 8. How Can We Best Manage Disasters?; 8.1. The knowledge management systems' contributions to disaster prevention policies; 8.2. Resistance to prevention policies: poverty and power relations, lifelong obstacles; 8.3. Evolution or revolution? The dilemma of Pahl-Wostl; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover. | |
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