| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
On disaster : disciplines, domains and definitions / Marie Aronsson-Storrier and Rasmus Dahlberg -- Prologue: The sociology of disaster : a US perspective on the transformational conceptualization embedded in a discipline / Tricia Wachtendorf -- Disaster anthropology : vulnerability, process and meaning / Kristoffer Albris -- Keep the curtains drawn! : event, process and disaster in international law / Marie Aronsson-Storrier -- Positioning social work in relation to disasters : a social notion running along a continuum / Carin Björngren Cuadra -- Defining the role of public health in disasters and emergency management / Kevin Blanchard -- Disaster in engineering and earthquake science / Sólveig Thorvaldsdóttir -- Defining disaster in volcanology / Jazmin P. Scarlett, Ailsa Naismith and Ashleigh Rushton -- Whose views matter? : for a pluralistic approach to understanding disasters / Loïc Le Dé and J.C. Gaillard -- Drought, famine and disasters / Olivier Rubin -- Defining disasters through international space governance / Nathan Clark -- Disaster definitions from an Arctic perspective / Natalia Andreassen and Rebecca Pincus -- Disaster movies : definitions, filmography and three analyses / Rasmus Dahlberg and Uta Reichardt -- Systemic disasters : considering the whole and not constituent parts / Livhuwani David Nemakonde -- Epilogue: What are disasters not? / Ilan Kelman |
| Summary |
"This timely book unpacks the idea of 'disaster' from a variety of approaches, broadening understanding and improving the usability of this complex and often contested concept. Including multidisciplinary perspectives from leading and emerging scholars, it offers reflections on how the concept of disaster has been shaped by and within various fields of research, providing complementary and thought-provoking comparisons across many domains." |
| Notes |
"The idea of this publication originates from fruitful and, at times, frustrating ... discussions at the first three North European Emergency and Disaster Studies (NEEDS) events held in Copenhagen in 2015 and 2017 and in Amsterdam in 2018"--Preface |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from title screen (Elgaronline, viewed on February 2, 2022) |
| Subject |
Disasters.
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Disasters -- Law and legislation.
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Public safety.
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Emergency management.
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Emergency management -- Law and legislation.
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Disasters
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disasters.
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Public safety
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Emergency management -- Law and legislation
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Emergency management
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Disasters -- Law and legislation
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Disasters
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Aronsson-Storrier, Marie, editor.
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Dahlberg, Rasmus, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781839100307 |
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1839100303 |
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