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Title Disaster archipelago : locating vulnerability and resilience in the Philippines / edited by Maria Carinnes P. Alejandria and Will Smith
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 283 pages)
Contents Introduction : place, politics, and disaster in the Philippines / Will Smith -- At a glance : disaster in the Philippines and the Philippine disaster management system / Zbigniew Piep[i]ora, Oliver Belarga, and Anthony Alindogan -- Aid effectiveness and the role of evaluation in the design and implementation of disaster-oriented programs in the Philippines / Anthony Alindogan -- Children in post-disaster conditions : the case of humanitarian intervention of Save the Children in post-Typhoon Haiyan in Leyte, Philippines / Liezl Riosa, Fernanda Claudio, M. Adil Khan -- Post-disaster accountability in the Haiyan shelter response : who had the greater say? / Ladylyn L. Mangada, Irma R. Tan, Margarita T. dela Cruz -- Sanay kami sa bagyo (We are used to storms) : unpacking "irrational" evacuation decision-making within the sentient ecology during Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) / Pamela Gloria Cajilig, Diego S. Maranan, Kathryn B. Francis, Gintare Zaksaite -- Surviving the old tides : disaster resilience among food-insecure older adults in an urban poor settlement in Manila / Maria Carinnes P. Alejandria -- "Baha at mga bata" (flood and children) : exploring selected Filipino children's flood experiences, vulnerable contexts & resilience / Arlen Ancheta, Clarence Batan, Dan Angelo Balita, Maria Carinnes Alejandria -- Drought, food insecurity, and cultures of hunger in the Philippines / Will Smith -- Ethnographic approaches to locating disaster : honey harvesting, livelihoods and everyday uncertainty on Palawan Island / Sarah Webb -- Community engaged resilience in an island community : case of fisherfolks in Pamarawan Island, Malolos, Bulacan, Philippines / Alain Jomarie G. Santos, Zosimo O. Membrebe Jr, John Christian C. Valeroso, Dr. Arlen A. Ancheta -- Harnessing participatory and community-based approach in disaster recovery planning in areas affected by the earthquake in Bohol / Emmanuel M. Luna, Rosalie Quilicol and Victor G. Obedicen -- Climate hazard effects on socio-environmental health and adaptation strategies in two coastal communities in Palawan Island, Philippines / Patrick A. Regoniel, Frederick A. Precillas, Melissa Theodora U. Macasaet, Nelly Mendoza -- Conclusion : reframing "disaster" / Noah Theriault
Summary "This interdisciplinary collection examines the complex nature of disaster--typhoons, floods, earthquakes, and drought--in the Philippines. The contributors analyze the challenges of the country's internal heterogeneity of language, ethnicity, and class and its effect on responses to natural disaster"-- Provided by publisher
Notes "This project is the result of discussions between anthropologists working on issues of environment and disaster in the Philippines at the American Association of Asian Studies annual conference in 2017"--Introduction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 30, 2019)
Subject Natural disasters -- Philippines -- Management
Natural disasters -- Social aspects -- Philippines
Natural disasters -- Philippines -- Psychological aspects
Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- Philippines
Disaster relief -- Philippines -- Psychological aspects
Resilience (Personality trait) -- Philippines
Disaster relief -- Psychological aspects
Disaster relief -- Social aspects
Natural disasters -- Management
Natural disasters -- Psychological aspects
Natural disasters -- Social aspects
Resilience (Personality trait)
Philippines
Form Electronic book
Author Alejandria-Gonzalez, Maria Carinnes P., 1983- editor.
Smith, Will (Anthropologist), editor.
Piepiora, Zbigniew. At a glance
LC no. 2019040004
ISBN 9781498569941
1498569943