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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2020
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Catastrophes in context ;
v. 2. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : color illustrations, color map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1789203465 9781789203462 |