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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster

Recovery Diva

Book Review: The Invention of Disaster: Power of Knowledge in Discourses of Hazard and Vulnerability. The book is part of Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change. The book is organized according to 11 chapters, each as an attempt to explain further the above issues as well as additional arguments.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

More than twenty authors are represented in this timely book, edited by Alessandra Jerolleman and William L. Waugh is editor in chief of the Emerald Book Series, “Community, Environment and Disaster Reduction Management,” of which this book is Volume 25. reviewed in Recovery Diva March 29, 2019 ].