Overview
- The book will probe the state of the art of disaster knowledge in several of the most puzzling areas
- Contributors are acknowledged experts in their fields
- The work will strive for an integration and synthesis of key ideas but will probe past easy explanations for hazard such as "lack of political will"
Part of the book series: Environmental Hazards (ENHA)
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About this book
The 50th anniversary of the Disaster Research Center of the University of Delaware provoked a discussion of the field’s background, its accomplishments, and its future directions. Participants representing many disciplines brought new methods to bear on perennial problems relevant to effective disaster management and policy formation. However, new concerns were raised, stemming from the fact that we live today in a globally unfolding environmental crisis every bit as pressing and worrisome as that of the 1960s when the Disaster Research center was founded. This volume brings together ideas of participants from that workshop as well as other contributors. Topics include: the history and evolution of disaster research, innovations in disaster management, disaster policy, and ethical considerations of disaster research. Readers interested in science and technology, public policy, community action, and the evolution of the social sciences will find much of interest in this collection.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Old Problems with New Solutions
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Disaster Research and the Second Environmental Crisis
Book Subtitle: Assessing the Challenges Ahead
Editors: James Kendra, Scott G. Knowles, Tricia Wachtendorf
Series Title: Environmental Hazards
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04691-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04689-7Published: 18 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04691-0Published: 04 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2542-9787
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9795
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 351
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environmental Geography, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Environmental Management