Handbook Of Disaster Research

by Rodriguez, Havidan; Quarantelli, Enrico L.; Dynes, Russell R.; Anderson, William A.

• ISBN13: 9780387739526
• ISBN10: 0387739521
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-30
• Publisher: Ingram Publisher Services, Inc.

Summary

Recent disasters, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, bomb explosions in London, Hurricane Katrina, the Pakistan Earthquake, floods in Central America, and landslides in Indonesia, among many others, have resulted in an extensive loss of life, social disruption, significant economic impacts to local and national economies, and have made headline news in countries throughout the world. Thus the Handbook of Disaster Research is a timely and much needed contribution to the field of disasters. The editors of this Handbook have brought together a comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume with a diverse and international group of contributors. The Handbook is based on the principle that disasters are social constructions and focuses on social science disaster research. Attention is given to conceptual issues dealing with the concept "disaster" and to methodological issues relating to research on disasters, including Geographic Information Systems as a useful research tool and its implications for future research; how disaster research is increasingly being used in the emergency management curriculum; and how research is useful in dealing with emergency operations. The Handbook also includes a number of essays focusing on various types of vulnerabilities. In addition, there are discussions on community processes that are evoked by disasters, including warnings, search and rescue, coordination, and organizational adaptation, as well as, dealing with death and injury, and recovery, and the role of the media in disasters; special attention is given to emergency systems in several nation states. The Handbook also includes contributions focusing on the relationship between disaster and development, the popular culture of disasters, new dimensions of disaster research, as well as projections of disasters into the future. Disasters allow the opportunity for social scientists to study human behavior in which adaptation, resilience and innovation are often more clearly revealed than in "normal" and stable times. The Handbook of Disaster Research provides an interdisciplinary and international approach to disasters with theoretical, methodological, and practical applications.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction

What is a Disaster?

A Heuristic Approach to Future Disasters and Crises: New, Old, and In Between Types

The Crisis Approach

Methodological Issues

The Role of Geographic Information Systems/Remote Sensing in Disaster

Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Disasters

Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Disaster Vulnerability

Gender and Disaster: Foundations and Directions

Globalization and Localization: An Economic Approach

Local Emergency Management Organizations

Community Processes: Warning and Evacuation

Search and Rescue Activities in Disasters

Community Processes: Coordination

Sustainable Disaster Recovery: Operationalizing an Existing Agenda

Sheltering and ousing Recovery Following Disaster

Businesses and Disasters: Vulnerability, Impact and Recovery

Organizational Adaptation to Disaster

Community Innovation and Disasters

Disaster and Development Research and Practice: A Necessary Electicism?

National Planning and Response: National Systems

Disaster and Crisis Management in Transitional Societies: Commonalitites and Regularities

Terrorism as Disaster

Recent Developments in U.S. Homeland Security Policies and Their Implications for the Management of Extreme Events

Unwelcome Irritant or Useful Ally: The Mass Media in Emergencies

The Popular Culture of DIsaster: Exploring a New Dimension of Disaster Research

Remembering: Community Commemorations After Disaster

Research Applications in the Classroom

From Research to Praxis: The Relevance of Disaster Research for Emergency Management

Communicating Risk and Uncertainty: Science, Technology, and Disasters at the Crossroads

Crisis Management in the 21st Century: "Unthinkable" Events in "Inconceivable" Contexts

New Dimensions: The Growth of a Market in Fear

Disasters Ever More? Reducing U.S. Vulnerabilities

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