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Disaster Research and the Second Environmental Crisis

Assessing the Challenges Ahead

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Editors:
  1. James Kendra

    1. Disaster Research Center and Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Delaware, Newark, USA

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  2. Scott G. Knowles

    1. Department of History, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA

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  3. Tricia Wachtendorf

    1. Disaster Research Center and Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware, Newark, USA

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  • The book will probe the state of the art of disaster knowledge in several of the most puzzling areas
  • Contributors are acknowledged experts in their fields
  • The work will strive for an integration and synthesis of key ideas but will probe past easy explanations for hazard such as "lack of political will"

Part of the book series: Environmental Hazards (ENHA)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: The New Environmental Crisis

    • James Kendra, Scott G. Knowles, Tricia Wachtendorf
    Pages 1-18

  3. Locating Disaster Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Launching the DRC: Historical Context and Future Directions

      • Thomas E. Drabek
      Pages 21-45

    3. Disaster Studies at 50: Time to Wear Bifocals?

      • Ben Wisner
      Pages 47-68

  4. Confronting the Second Environmental Crisis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. The Silence Before the Storm: Advocacy Groups’ Current Perceptions of Future Climate Vulnerability

      • Carlos Eduardo Martín
      Pages 71-104

    3. Beautiful and Safe Landscapes for Sustainable Disaster Risk Reduction

      • Fausto Marincioni, Cristina Casareale, Kenneth Byrne
      Pages 105-116

    4. Mobilizing Communities to Confront Global Challenges: A Phronetic Inquiry

      • Philip Barnes, Andrea Sarzynski
      Pages 117-135

    5. Sleepwalking into Disaster? Understanding Coping in the Broader Field of Mental Barriers. Examples from the Norwegian Arctic in the Face of Climate Change

      • Anna Lena Bercht
      Pages 137-160

    6. Growing the Constituency: A Twenty-First Century Challenge

      • James K. Mitchell
      Pages 161-188

    7. The Role of Landscape Experience in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation. Is It a Strategy for Democratizing Resilience?

      • Sara Bonati
      Pages 189-202

  5. Old Problems with New Solutions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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    2. Building Disaster Resilience on the Edge of Chaos: A Systems Critique on Mechanistic Global Disaster Reduction Policies, Frameworks and Models

      • Christo Coetzee, Dewald van Niekerk, Leandri Kruger
      Pages 205-221

    3. Services Not Required? Assessing the Need for ‘Coordination Agencies’ During Disaster Response

      • Johanu Botha
      Pages 223-241

    4. Categories of Success: How Do We Make Who Listen?

      • Rachel Dowty Beech, William Wallace
      Pages 243-259

    5. The Emergency Manager as Risk Manager

      • Patrick S. Roberts, Kris Wernstedt, Joseph Arvai, Kelly Redmond
      Pages 261-275

    6. Disaster Response as Secondary Hazard

      • Malka Older
      Pages 277-293

    7. Compromise and Action: Tactics for Doing Ethical Research in Disaster Zones

      • Jennifer Henderson, Max Liboiron
      Pages 295-318

    8. Ethics in Disaster Research: A New Declaration

      • James Kendra, Sarah Gregory
      Pages 319-341
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About this book

The 50th anniversary of the Disaster Research Center of the University of Delaware provoked a discussion of the field’s background, its accomplishments, and its future directions. Participants representing many disciplines brought new methods to bear on perennial problems relevant to effective disaster management and policy formation.  However, new concerns were raised, stemming from the fact that we live today in a globally unfolding environmental crisis every bit as pressing and worrisome as that of the 1960s when the Disaster Research center was founded.  This volume brings together ideas of participants from that workshop as well as other contributors. Topics include: the history and evolution of disaster research, innovations in disaster management, disaster policy, and ethical considerations of disaster research.  Readers interested in science and technology, public policy, community action, and the evolution of the social sciences will find much of interest in this collection.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Disaster Research Center and Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Delaware, Newark, USA

    James Kendra

  • Department of History, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA

    Scott G. Knowles

  • Disaster Research Center and Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware, Newark, USA

    Tricia Wachtendorf

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