Risk, Disaster and Crisis Reduction

Preface.- Risk and Information: for a new Conceptual Framework.- A Contemporary Look at Risks: Risks are Plural and Transcalar.- Information as a Process.- Definitions, Classifications and Models.- Reviewing Risk Categories.- Integrated Risk Management.- Temporal Risk Models.- Contextualising the Stages of Risk and the Various Types of Expertise.- The Information Flow.- Proposing a new Conceptual Framework.- The Translation Process.- The Holds.- The Trajectories.- The Research.- Case Studies.- Methodology.- Field Research.- Disseminating Information and Risk Management in Madagascar.- Risk Management in Madagascar.- The Institutional Structures of Crisis Management.- The Focal Point in Madagascar: the BNGRC.- The Roles and Responsibilities of the Actors.- The Terminology and the Categories of Alert Used.- Prevention, Alleviation, Preparation, Intervention.- Vulnerability.- The Warning.- Permeable Categories.- Definitions and Approaches to Risks.- The Circulation of Risk Information in Madagascar.- The Information Circulation Profiles.- Vertical Communication.- Horizontal Communication.- Actor Profiles.- The Socio-Technical Intermediaries.- Batteries.- Fuel.- Books, Forms and Reports.- Figures.- Conclusion.- Continuity between Categories and Reference Points for Action.- Structure Linking the Levels of Information.- Connexity and Contiguity.- Using and Communicating Information Practices Adopted by Tow Organisations in Cameroon.- Introduction.- The National Context with Regard to Health and Environmental Problems.- Objectives of the Research carried out in Cameroon.- Presentation of two NGOs, Local Contexts and Populations.- Research Methods.- The Doctors Working with Prosenat.- Definition of Risk and of Prevention.- Sources of Information and Professional Training Routes.- Communicating Knowledge.- Circulation of Information.- The Prosenat Traditional Therapists.- Definition of Risk and of Prevention.- Training and Sources of Information.- Communicating Knowledge.-

Valerie November, Ph.D., is CNRS Research Professor and is working at the Techniques, Territories and Society Lab (LATTS), Ecole des Ponts ParisTech. Between 2006 and 2011, she worked as Swiss National Science Foundation Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne (EPFL). Her research focuses on risk management in many different fields (natural, environmental, technological, urban), with an approach that mixes human geography and sociology of science and techniques. She published "Habiter les territoires à risques" (2011) and the catalogue of the art-science-society exhibition called "Risk inSight" that she commissioned (2012).

After many migratory movements between Switzerland and Canada, Yvan Leanza, Ph.D., is a full professor in the School of Psychology, Laval University (Québec City) where he teaches cross-cultural psychology and intervention, and leads the "Psychology and Cultures" lab. His research focuses on working with interpreters and relations to the (culturally different) other in healthcare settings and on sleep in a cross-cultural perspective. He is a founding member and the director of Alterstice - International Journal of Intercultural Research. He has edited or authored books on migrant and minority integration processes, and on the relation to the (culturally different) other in pediatrics. He is one of the authors of the only systematic review of interpreting qualitative studies (published in Patient Education and Counselling 91, 2013) and of a chapter on working with interpreters in mental health settings (in Kirmayer, L. et al., 2014, Cultural Consultation, New-York: Springer).