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Book Review: Why Vulnerability Still Matters – The Politics of Disaster Risk Creation.

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Why Vulnerability Still Matters -The Politics of Disaster Risk Creation , Edited by Greg Bankoff and Dorothea Hilhorst. Why Vulnerability Still Matters -The Politics of Disaster Risk Creation provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of vulnerability, disaster risk, and political systems. Routledge, 2022.

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New Book Review

Recovery Diva

Book Review: Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management. The editors are experts in the field with many years of conducting research and teaching with particular emphasis on social vulnerability and cultural complexity within the context of emergencies and disasters. link] April 2020. The case studies cover both the U.S.

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Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

Recovery Diva

This new book is the first released book (volume) of the four-volume series of Disaster and Emergency Management Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation with three books forthcoming, each representing one of the four phases of disaster management (mitigation/prevention, preparedness, response, recovery). December 2022.

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Review of New Book on the Pandemic

Recovery Diva

This pandemic book spends relatively little time on the years of the pandemic, but it paints a grim picture of decisions and events from dozens of years before.

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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster

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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. Labeling certain groups as vulnerable justifies the intervention of outside actors (i.e. Series Editor: Ilan Kelman.

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Book Review: Resilience Matters;Flourishing in an Era of Extremes

Recovery Diva

Our intrepid reviewer, Mr. John Plodinec (PhD), has reviewed the new edition of this book. The Introductory essay by Laurie Mazur sets the tone for much of the rest of the book: “ It’s not a stretch to say that we live in an age of extremes. Compared to other books in this series, this contains more solutions we can use now.

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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

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.