Social Roots of Risk [[electronic resource] ] : Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience
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| Autore: |
Tierney Kathleen
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| Titolo: |
Social Roots of Risk [[electronic resource] ] : Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience
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| Pubblicazione: | Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 302/.12 |
| Soggetto topico: | Disasters -- Social aspects |
| Emergency management -- Social aspects | |
| Risk -- Social aspects | |
| Risk management -- Social aspects | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Risking More, Losing More: Thinking About Risk and Resilience -- Chapter 2. Looking Back: The Evolution of How We Talk About Risk -- Chapter 3. A Different Perspective: The Social Production of Risk -- Chapter 4. Culture and the Production of Risk -- Chapter 5. Organizations, Institutions, and the Production of Risk -- Chapter 6. Communities and Societies at Risk -- Chapter 7. Defining Resilience in Relation to Risk -- Chapter 8. Adaptive Resilience in the Face of Disasters -- Chapter 9. Looking Ahead: A Move Toward Safety, or More of the Same -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The first decade of the 21st century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters. Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that catastrophic events can have on developing countries, while 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina showed that first world nations remain vulnerable.The Social Roots of Risk argues against the widespread notion that cataclysmic occurrences are singular events, driven by forces beyond our control. Instead, Kathleen Tierney contends that disasters of all types-be they natural, technological, or economic-are rooted in common social and inst |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Social Roots of Risk |
| ISBN: | 0-8047-9140-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910464312403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
High Reliability and Crisis Management