"Framing Community Disaster Resistance: An Essential Guide to Foundation, Research, and Practices" by Maureen Fordham is a comprehensive literature on topics related to community resilience against disasters and hazardous events. She tackles the analysis of various practical approaches and explores resilience's key dimensions across different disciplines and fields.
One of the notable features of this book is its focus on exploring specific case studies through a detailed and nuanced perspective. Five case studies are highlighted as test cases by the author as they pertain to various geographic areas that are dealing with the impacts of specific hazards like floods, earthquakes, landslides, heat waves, and a combination of fluvial flooding and thunderstorms. These case analyses gather data based on previous experiences for assessing current conditions and understanding the dynamics behind community resilience dynamics.
Additionally, the study integrates networked networks of research, theory, and practice in an effort to comprehend community resilience in emergency situations. It also offers an overview of outcomes drawn from the well-known framework building resilience among communities in Europe ("emBRACE").The work's empirical analysis casts light on defining resilience and use indicators in describing community performance. A distinguishing feature of this work is that it merges the three pillars of research literature, networking, and practices, in an effort towards a deeper understanding and appreciation of community resilience against natural or man-made disasters.
With a focus on themes such as hazards and resilience, this text is meant to provide readers with valuable insights into resilience theory and practice, specifically on its applications for the purposes of disaster preparedness and management. Whether an undergraduate student, postgraduate seeking research experience, or policy-maker curious about resilience matters, a copy of Framing community Disaster Resistance provides a convenient reference to develop new ideas and work on community safety against potentially harmful events that could arise over the next few decades.
Электронная Книга «Framing Community Disaster Resilience» написана автором Maureen Fordham в году.
Минимальный возраст читателя: 0
Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9781119165996
Описание книги от Maureen Fordham
An essential guide to the foundations, research and practices of community disaster resilience Framing Community Disaster Resilience offers a guide to the theories, research and approaches for addressing the complexity of community resilience towards hazardous events or disasters. The text draws on the activities and achievements of the project emBRACE: Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe. The authors identify the key dimensions of resilience across a range of disciplines and domains and present an analysis of community characteristics, networks, behaviour and practices in specific test cases. The text contains an in-depth exploration of five test cases whose communities are facing impacts triggered by different hazards, namely: river floods in Germany, earthquakes in Turkey, landslides in South Tyrol, Italy, heat-waves in London and combined fluvial and pluvial floods in Northumberland and Cumbria. The authors examine the data and indicators of past events in order to assess current situations and to tackle the dynamics of community resilience. In addition, they put the focus on empirical analysis to explore the resilience concept and to test the usage of indicators for describing community resilience. This important text: Merges the forces of research knowledge, networking and practices in order to understand community disaster resilience Contains the results of the acclaimed project Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe – emBRACE Explores the key dimensions of community resilience Includes five illustrative case studies from European communities that face various hazards Written for undergraduate students, postgraduates and researchers of social science, and policymakers, Framing Community Disaster Resilience reports on the findings of an important study to reveal the most effective approaches to enhancing community resilience. The emBRACE research received funding from the European Community‘s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement n° 283201. The European Community is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained in this publication.
