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Author Hollis, Simon

Title Resilience in the Pacific and the Caribbean The Local Construction of Disaster Risk Reduction
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (219 p.)
Series Routledge Studies in Resilience Ser
Routledge Studies in Resilience Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The puzzling results of disaster resilience -- A global world of resilience -- Local worlds of resilience -- From facts to values -- Book outline -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1 Theoretical framework -- The concept of resilience -- Resilience and critical realism -- Norm localisation -- A note on the use and analysis of art -- Summary -- Notes -- References
Chapter 2 The future present: A global worldview of disaster resilience -- Method -- Characteristics of global DRR -- Resilience as the future-present -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 The future past: Disaster resilience in the Pacific -- Resilience in the Pacific -- Resisting and localising resilience -- The future-past: A Pacific world of resilience -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 The present future: Disaster resilience in the Caribbean -- Disaster risk and resilience in the Caribbean -- Resisting and localising resilience
The present-future: A Caribbean world of resilience -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Being resilient -- The global person: Controlling contingency -- The Pacific person: Living outside contingency -- The Caribbean person: living in contingency -- Summary: The resilient person -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 A personalist ethics of resilience -- Missing persons -- Personalism -- Critical realism, persons and resilience -- The emergence of resilience -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- Conclusion -- Worldviews of resilience -- Missing persons
Towards a personalist ethics of resilience -- Towards a balanced approach for living with contingencies -- Notes -- References -- Annex 1: Methods of international DRR -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Emergency management -- Social aspects -- Caribbean Area
Emergency management -- Social aspects -- Pacific Area
Risk management -- Social aspects
Emergency management -- Social aspects
Risk management -- Social aspects
Caribbean Area
Pacific Area
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429664335
0429664338