Book Review
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Citation
Connon I (2016) Review of ‘Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction. Review of: Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction. Krüger, Fred, Greg Bankoff, Terry Cannon, Benedikt Orlowski, and E. Lisa F. Schipper, eds. New York: Routledge, 2015. 282 pp. ISBN 978-0415745604. Environment and Society, 7 (1), pp. 139-143. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26204979
Abstract
Recent changes in climate behavior characterized by the increasing severity and frequency of extreme environmental disasters present challenges for community members living in hazard-prone areas throughout the world and for scholars and practitioners working in the field of “disaster risk reduction.” Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction is an edited volume that provides a rich collection of theoretical and practical case studies that highlight the significance of culture for enhancing understandings of responses to natural disaster events and for devising disaster-response strategies that are responsive to local socio-cultural contexts.
Journal
Environment and Society: Volume 7, Issue 1
Status | Published |
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Publication date | 31/12/2016 |
Date accepted by journal | 01/01/2016 |
Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
Publisher URL | https://www.jstor.org/stable/26204979 |
ISSN | 2150-6779 |
eISSN | 2150-6787 |
Item discussed | Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction. Krüger, Fred, Greg Bankoff, Terry Cannon, Benedikt Orlowski, and E. Lisa F. Schipper, eds. New York: Routledge, 2015. 282 pp. ISBN 978-0415745604 |
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Lecturer, Social Work