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A Systems Failure Approach to Disaster Risk Management, SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science

ISBN: 3319669508
ISBN 13: 9783319669502
Autor: Ray-Bennett, Nibedita S
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xxvi, 112 S., 3 s/w Illustr., 2 farbige Illustr., 112 p. 5 illus., 2 illus. in color.
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2017
Auflage: 1/2018
Produktform: Kartoniert
Einband: Kartoniert

This book addresses one of the most fundamental questions of the 21st century: why deaths continue to occur in natural disasters despite the tremendous advancements in disaster management science and weather forecasting systems, increased sophistication of human-built environments and ongoing economic and policy development worldwide. By presenting an interdisciplinary tool for analysing ’systems failure‘, the book provides concrete suggestions on how deaths may be reduced in resource-poor contexts. It goes beyond traditional risk and vulnerability perspectives and demonstrates that deaths in disasters are complex problems that can be solved by adopting a socio-technical perspective to improve current disaster management systems in the developing world.  The book is a timely contribution, as it directly addresses Global Target One of the UN’s ‚Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction‘, which has urged 185 UN Member States to reduce disaster mortality by 2030. Further, it offers a valuable resource for students, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners interested in disaster risk reduction, human rights, gender, sociology of risk, crisis and disasters, environmental science, organisation and management studies.

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Beschreibung

Identifies essential characteristics of socio-technical disaster management systems in order to help disaster managers and practitioners improve their planning and policies Defines a set of knowledge, skills and expertise required for first and second level disaster responders to deal with disaster climates in order to reduce deaths Presents case studies and gender-disaggregated mortality data 

Autorenporträt

Funded by Ford Foundations International Fellowship Programme, Dr. Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett completed her PhD in Sociology from Warwick University. Currently, Nibedita is Lecturer in Risk Management in the School of Businesss Civil Safety and Security Unit, University of Leicester. She is the author of Caste, Class and Gender in Multiple Disasters (VDM Verlag, 2009). Nibedita is a Research Affiliate at: Northumbria Universitys Disaster and Development Network (formerly known as Disaster and Development Centre); the National Centre for Earth Observation; University of Leicesters Centre for Climate Change and Landscape Research; and University College Londons ESRC funded RELIEF Centre Global Associates International Network (GAIN). Nibedita is a Fellow at the Higher Education Academy in the UK.

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