Recovery Diva
MAY 7, 2022
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.
Recovery Diva
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
These statements document incremental progress to recognizing the principal message and caution of this book, that our development practices—the ways we build on the land—too often resulting in increasing risk of disaster, when they could and should be doing the opposite, reducing risk to natural disaster, climate change and sea level rise. [p.
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Recovery Diva
MAY 12, 2022
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 ].
Recovery Diva
JUNE 30, 2022
Studies, Yale University and Lori Peek, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Natural. Hazards Research Center, University of Colorado Boulder. This book is the 8th book in the University of Texas’ Katrina Bookshelf series edited by Kai Erikson. Authors: Kai Erikson, William R. Hardcover Price $90.00. Former U.S.
Recovery Diva
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Key words: environmental governance, sustainability, resilience, climate risk, natural hazard, disaster risk reduction, building regulation. ISBN-hardcover: 978 0 367 42398 8 ISBN-electronic: 978 0 367 82394 8; Pages: 381; on-line price $52.95 for paperback., for hardback, $42.36 for etext USD.
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