Disaster Research and the Second Environmental Crisis: Assessing the Challenges Ahead
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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Introduction: The New Environmental Crisis (James Kendra, Scott G. Knowles, Tricia Wachtendorf)....Pages 1-18 Front Matter ....Pages 19-19 Launching the DRC: Historical Context and Future Directions (Thomas E. Drabek)....Pages 21-45 Disaster Studies at 50: Time to Wear Bifocals? (Ben Wisner)....Pages 47-68 Front Matter ....Pages 69-69 The Silence Before the Storm: Advocacy Groups’ Current Perceptions of Future Climate Vulnerability (Carlos Eduardo Martín)....Pages 71-104 Beautiful and Safe Landscapes for Sustainable Disaster Risk Reduction (Fausto Marincioni, Cristina Casareale, Kenneth Byrne)....Pages 105-116 Mobilizing Communities to Confront Global Challenges: A Phronetic Inquiry (Philip Barnes, Andrea Sarzynski)....Pages 117-135 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 Growing the Constituency: A Twenty-First Century Challenge (James K. Mitchell)....Pages 161-188 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 Front Matter ....Pages 203-203 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 Services Not Required? Assessing the Need for ‘Coordination Agencies’ During Disaster Response (Johanu Botha)....Pages 223-241 Categories of Success: How Do We Make Who Listen? (Rachel Dowty Beech, William Wallace)....Pages 243-259 The Emergency Manager as Risk Manager (Patrick S. Roberts, Kris Wernstedt, Joseph Arvai, Kelly Redmond)....Pages 261-275 Disaster Response as Secondary Hazard (Malka Older)....Pages 277-293 Compromise and Action: Tactics for Doing Ethical Research in Disaster Zones (Jennifer Henderson, Max Liboiron)....Pages 295-309 Ethics in Disaster Research: A New Declaration (James Kendra, Sarah Gregory)....Pages 311-333 A Case for the Grand Challenge of Disaster Science (Tricia Wachtendorf)....Pages 335-343
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