{"product_id":"disaster-upon-disaster-exploring-the-gap-between-knowledge-policy-and-practice-9781789206487","title":"Disaster Upon Disaster: Exploring the Gap Between","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tA consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many aspects of disasters, such as driving factors, risk construction, complexity of resettlement, and importance of peoples’ culture, very little has become protocol and procedure. \u003cem\u003eDisaster Upon Disaster\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field, goes on to detail contingencies, predicaments, old and new plights, and finally advances solutions toward greatly improved outcomes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eDisaster upon Disaster \u003cem\u003eis written in an accessible language and admirably avoids most of the features of academic discourse … and humanitarian … that produce and maintain gaps between academic anthropologists and their applied colleagues. Readers are presented with a fairly wide range of theoretical approaches, and the authors make a number of concrete suggestions for improvements.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Anthropology Book Forum\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This book took me on a journey that I must admit was not always comfortable. It challenged me to think more locally… I might not agree with it in every way, but It did what every good academic volume should it made me think more deeply. Thanks to those who were involved in making it.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e•\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eRecovery Diva Blog\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The contributors, individually and collectively, do not merely point to or describe the gaps between knowledge, policy, and practice—they build sturdy bridges across them… I highly recommend this book”\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cstrong\u003e• A.J. Faas\u003c\/strong\u003e, San Jose State University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“An important contribution to the applied anthropological research on disasters, for it brings together experiences and reflections of various key players in the field—anthropologists, practitioners (e.g. local and international NGO leaders, officials of various functions, and freelance consultants), and other constituents.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Qiaoyun Zhang\u003c\/strong\u003e, Shanghai University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Defining Disaster Upon Disaster: Why Risk Prevention and Disaster Response So Often Fail\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSusanna M. Hoffman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: ILLUMINATING THE FISSURES: SUPPOSITIONS, REALITIES, AGENDAS, AND EXECUTION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Unwieldy Disasters: Engaging the Multiple Gaps and Connections That Make Catastrophes\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRoberto E. Barrios\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Advocacy and Accomplishment: Contrasting Challenges to Successful Disaster Risk Management\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTerry Jeggle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Natural Hazard Events into Disasters: The Gap between Knowledge, Policy, and Practice as it Affects the Built Environment\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eStephen Bender\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Humanitarian Response:  Ideals Meet Reality\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAdam Koons\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Disaster Theory Versus Practice? It’s a Long Rocky Road - A Practitioner’s View from the Ground\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJane Murphy Thomas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: SITUATIONS AND EXPOSITIONS: PLIGHTS, PROBLEMS AND QUANDRIES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Slow On-Set Disaster: Climate Change and the Gaps Between Knowledge, Policy, and Practice\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eShirley J. Fiske and Elizabeth Marino\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/em\u003e Disrupting Gendered Outcomes: Addressing Disaster Vulnerability Through Stakeholder Participation\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBrenda D. Phillips\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Resettlement for Disaster Risk Reduction: Global Knowledge, Local Application\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnthony Oliver-Smith\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e From Nuclear Things to Things Nuclear: Minding the Gap at the Knowledge-Policy-Practice Nexus in Post-Fallout Fukushima\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRyo Morimoto\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e  “Haitians Need to be Patient” - Notes on Policy Advocacy in Washington Following Haiti’s Earthquake\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMark Schuller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: REVAMPING APPARATUS AND OUTCOME\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Scope and Importance of Anthropology and its Core Concept of Culture in Closing the Risk and Disaster Knowledge to Policy and Practice Gap\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSusanna M. Hoffman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Engaged: Applying the Anthropology of Disaster to Practitioner Settings and Policy Creation\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKatherine E. Browne, Elizabeth Marino, Heather Lazrus, and Keely Maxwell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e Future Matter Matters: Disasters as a (Potential) Vehicle for Social Change. It’s About Time\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnn Bergman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042560180567,"sku":"9781789206487","price":25.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789206487.jpg?v=1750954644","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/disaster-upon-disaster-exploring-the-gap-between-knowledge-policy-and-practice-9781789206487","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}