Community Disaster Recovery and Resiliency (PDF)
Exploring Global Opportunities and Challenges
(Sprache: Englisch)
Emphasizing non-traditional approaches to disaster recovery and rebuilding communities, this book brings together leading research on the ways various societies have experienced disasters, learned from them, and revised their thinking about building...
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Emphasizing non-traditional approaches to disaster recovery and rebuilding communities, this book brings together leading research on the ways various societies have experienced disasters, learned from them, and revised their thinking about building resiliency pre- and post-disaster. It includes numerous case studies that illustrate the difficulties that persist as societies attempt to overcome challenges and rebuild more disaster-resilient communities. All chapters offer diverse community examples that form a framework for comparing best practices ¿ focusing on integrated solutions for ecological restoration and community development.
Autoren-Porträt
DeMond Shondell Miller is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the Liberal Arts and Sciences Institute for Research and Community Service at Rowan University (Glassboro, New Jersey). He has worked as principal investigator to facilitate research projects involving natural and human-induced ecological disasters, environmental issues, and community satisfaction. His primary area of specialization is environmental sociology (disaster studies and the study of the social construction of place), community development and community organizing, and social impact assessment. Dr. Miller has presented and published several professional papers; recent examples of such work can be found in Space and Culture: An International Journal of Social Spaces, International Journal of the Humanities, Journal of Black Studies, The Journal of Public Management and Social Policy, Sociological Spectrum, and The International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research. Recently, he has contributed to several edited volumes including Through the Eye of Katrina: Social Justice in the United States and The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe; he is the co-author of Hurricane Katrina and the Redefinition of Landscape with Jason D. Rivera (Lexington Press) and coeditor of African American and Community Engagement in Higher Education: Community Service, Service Learning and Community-Based Research with S. Evans, C. Taylor, and M. Dunlap (State University of New York Press).Jason David Rivera is a Research Associate in the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. His research focuses on social vulnerability to natural and manmade disasters with an emphasis on minority experiences. Additionally, his research highlights institutional structures that have historically perpetuated social vulnerability within minor
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2010, 1. Auflage, 634 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: DeMond S. Miller, Jason David Rivera
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- ISBN-10: 1420088238
- ISBN-13: 9781420088236
- Erscheinungsdatum: 12.10.2010
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