Overview
- Identifies essential characteristics of socio-technical disaster management systems in order to help disaster managers and practitioners improve their planning and policies
- Defines a set of knowledge, skills and expertise required for first and second level disaster responders to deal with ‘disaster climates’ in order to reduce deaths
- Presents case studies and gender-disaggregated mortality data
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science (BRIEFSENVIRONMENTAL)
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This book addresses one of the most fundamental questions of the 21st century: why deaths continue to occur in natural disasters despite the tremendous advancements in disaster management science and weather forecasting systems, increased sophistication of human-built environments and ongoing economic and policy development worldwide. By presenting an interdisciplinary tool for analysing ‘systems failure’, the book provides concrete suggestions on how deaths may be reduced in resource-poor contexts. It goes beyond traditional risk and vulnerability perspectives and demonstrates that deaths in disasters are complex problems that can be solved by adopting a socio-technical perspective to improve current disaster management systems in the developing world.
The book is a timely contribution, as it directly addresses Global Target One of the UN’s ‘Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction’, which has urged 185 UN Member States to reduce disaster mortality by 2030. Further, it offers a valuable resource for students, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners interested in disaster risk reduction, human rights, gender, sociology of risk, crisis and disasters, environmental science, organisation and management studies.
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Book Title: Avoidable Deaths
Book Subtitle: A Systems Failure Approach to Disaster Risk Management
Authors: Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66951-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66950-2Published: 21 September 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66951-9Published: 04 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2191-5547
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5555
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 112
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Environmental Management, Sustainable Development, Social Policy, Sociology, general