Recovery Diva

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Reviewed by Donald Watson, editor of the website theOARSlist.com , Organizations Addressing Resilience and Sustainability, editor of Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design (McGraw-Hill 2001), and co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011).

Risk Reduction 100

Risk Reduction All-Hazards Natural Hazard Hazard 100

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. is a disaster risk management specialist, currently working for the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC Global). Series Editor: Ilan Kelman.

Risk Reduction 113

Risk Reduction Hazard Natural Hazard Vulnerability 113

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.

Natural Hazard 203

Natural Hazard Management Risk Reduction All-Hazards 203

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

In his book about the earthquake, the eminent Harvard medical doctor Paul Farmer [ii] noted that only 3.8% In 1978 the architect Ian Davis published a small book entitled Shelter After Disaster , [iv] which included a number of well-chosen exposés of post-disaster housing as architectural fantasy rather than useful dwelling place.

Vulnerability 174

Vulnerability All-Hazards Risk Reduction Government 174