1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990003011830203316

Autore

HOFFMANN, Josef

Titolo

Josef Hoffmann / a cura di Giuliano Gresleri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bologna : Zanichelli, copyr. 1981

Descrizione fisica

197 p. : ill. ; 21 cm

Collana

Serie di architettura ; 10

Disciplina

720.9436

Soggetti

Hoffmann, Josef

Collocazione

V E SER 10

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910693976303321

Autore

Paton Douglas

Titolo

Preparing for disaster : building household and community capacity / / by Douglas Paton, PH.D., C.Psychol., School of Psychology, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia and John McClure, PH.D., School of Psychology, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Springfield, Illinois : , : Charles C Thomas, Publisher, , 2013

ISBN

0-398-08897-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

McClureJohn

Disciplina

363.3472

Soggetti

Emergency management

Preparedness

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""PREPARING FOR DISASTER""; ""CONTENTS""; ""Chapter 1 CO-EXISTING



WITH A HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT""; ""Chapter 2 PEOPLE, HAZARDS, AND HAZARD MITIGATION""; ""Chapter 3 HAZARD READINESS AND PREPAREDNESS""; ""Chapter 4 PEOPLE�S BELIEFS AND HAZARD PREPAREDNESS""; ""Chapter 5 PREDICTING HAZARD PREPAREDNESS: SOCIAL COGNITIVE INFLUENCES""; ""Chapter 6 SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON HAZARD BELIEFS""; ""Chapter 7 HAZARD PREPAREDNESS: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND EMPOWERMENT""; ""Chapter 8 CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON HAZARD PREPAREDNESS""; ""Chapter 9 BUSINESS PREPAREDNESS""

""FUTURE ISSUES IN HAZARD PREPAREDNESS: ENGAGING PEOPLE, SCIENCE, PRACTICE""""REFERENCES""; ""INDEX""

Sommario/riassunto

Despite the evident advantages that being prepared for natural life-threatening events confers on people and communities, research has consistently found that individual, community, and business preparedness levels are low. This book examines why this is so and identifies what can be done to expedite the development of sustained preparedness, at household, community, and societal levels. The text emphasizes the need for this aspect of social risk management to be based on engagement principles: how people engage with their natural environment, how they engage with each other, and how people an