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Going Forward By Looking Back - Archaeological Perspectives On Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, And Collapse

~~31,73€~~ 25,38€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This heritage of past disasters serves as inspiration for building culturally sensitive adaptions to present and future calamities, to mitigate their impacts, and facilitate recoveries.
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Disaster Upon Disaster - Exploring The Gap Between Knowledge, Policy And Practice

~~23,78€~~ 19,02€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field and advances solutions and the matter of outcomes.
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A Revelatory Pandemic - Crisis, Agency, And Covid In Latin America

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 Bringing the anthropologies of disaster, epidemics, and crisis into conversation, A Revelatory Pandemic subjects the hopeful expectations of post-pandemic change to social-scientific scrutiny across Latin America and challenges popular and scholarly assumptions about the causes and outcomes of crisis.
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Revelatory Pandemic - Crisis, Agency, And Covid In Latin America

~~26,43€~~ 23,79€ 10% OFF

 Political leaders and the news media described the public-health catastrophe of COVID-19 as a crisis, while scholars and public intellectuals portrayed the pandemic as a debacle that would lay bare the inequities and contradictions of an increasingly neoliberal global political economy and usher in an era of progressive, transformative change. Bringing the anthropologies of disaster, epidemics, and crisis into conversation, A Revelatory Pandemic subjects these hopeful expectations of post-pandemic change to social-scientific scrutiny across Latin America and challenges popular and scholarly assumptions about the causes and outcomes of crisis.
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Capitalism And Catastrophe - A Critical Disaster Studies Manifesto

by Raja Swamy

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 This book argues that disasters are intimately linked to historical processes that foster contemporary unequal relationships, and should therefore include both those commonly associated with nature as well as those we consider facets of history and social conflict, such as war and destitution.
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Capitalism And Catastrophe - A Critical Disaster Studies Manifesto

by Raja Swamy

~~23,78€~~ 21,40€ 10% OFF

 This book argues that disasters are intimately linked to historical processes that foster contemporary unequal relationships, and should therefore include both those commonly associated with nature as well as those we consider facets of history and social conflict, such as war and destitution.
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Constructing Risk - Disaster, Development, And The Built Environment

by Stephen O. Bender

~~26,43€~~ 21,14€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies are trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers.
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Designing Knowledge Economies For Disaster Resilience - Case Studies From The African Diaspora

~~46,31€~~ 37,05€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Acknowledging that low economic development and high climate costs do not equitably coexist, this collected volume interrogates the challenge for disaster-prone territories to determine supplemental strategies for restructuring and redesigning their environment.
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Designing Knowledge Economies For Disaster Resilience - Case Studies From The African Diaspora

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 Acknowledging that low economic development and high climate costs do not equitably coexist, this collected volume interrogates the challenge for disaster-prone territories to determine supplemental strategies for restructuring and redesigning their environment.
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Power Of The Story - Writing Disasters In Haiti And The Circum-Caribbean

~~37,03€~~ 29,62€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 <p>A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich and diverse set of arguments and analyses on the ever-relevant theme of catastrophe in the circum-Caribbean, it will encourage debate and collaboration between scholars working on disasters from a range of disciplinary perspectives.</p>
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Making Things Happen - Community Participation And Disaster Reconstruction In Pakistan

by Jane Murphy Thomas

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 Making Things Happen is about the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction, drawing on one project, the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP). As disasters are increasing in number and intensity so too will be the need for reconstruction, for which PERRP has lessons to offer.
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Constructing Risk - Disaster, Development, And The Built Environment

by Stephen O. Bender

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 Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies are trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers.
Constructing Risk - Disaster, Development, And The Built Environment

by Stephen O. Bender

~~26,43€~~ 21,14€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies are trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers.
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Going Forward By Looking Back - Archaeological Perspectives On Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, And Collapse

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 This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This heritage of past disasters serves as inspiration for building culturally sensitive adaptions to present and future calamities, to mitigate their impacts, and facilitate recoveries.
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Going Forward By Looking Back - Archaeological Perspectives On Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, And Collapse

~~31,73€~~ 25,38€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 <p>Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people settle into hazardous places. While disaster response and management are traditionally seen as the domain of the natural and technical sciences, awareness of the importance and role of cultural adaptation is essential. This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This serves as inspiration for building culturally sensitive adaptations to present and future calamities, to mitigate their impact, and facilitate recoveries.</p>
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Disaster Upon Disaster - Exploring The Gap Between Knowledge, Policy And Practice

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 A 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. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field and advances solutions and the matter of outcomes.
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Disaster Upon Disaster - Exploring The Gap Between Knowledge, Policy And Practice

~~23,78€~~ 19,02€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 A 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. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field and advances solutions and the matter of outcomes.
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Contextualizing Disaster

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 Offers a comparative analysis of six recent disasters and several 'hiddenâ€™, crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. Makes a compelling argument for understanding disasters as transnational and global phenomenon.
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Contextualizing Disaster

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 Offers a comparative analysis of six recent disasters and several 'hiddenâ€™, crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. Makes a compelling argument for understanding disasters as transnational and global phenomenon.
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Contextualizing Disaster

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 Offers a comparative analysis of six recent disasters and several 'hiddenâ€™, crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. Makes a compelling argument for understanding disasters as transnational and global phenomenon.
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The Power Of The Story - Writing Disasters In Haiti And The Circum-Caribbean

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The Power Of The Story - Writing Disasters In Haiti And The Circum-Caribbean

133,84€ + 10% CARD

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Going Forward By Looking Back - Archaeological Perspectives On Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, And Collapse

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Making Things Happen - Community Participation And Disaster Reconstruction In Pakistan

by Jane Murphy Thomas

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 Making Things Happen is about the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction, drawing on one project, the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP). As disasters are increasing in number and intensity so too will be the need for reconstruction, for which PERRP has lessons to offer.
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