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Disaster prevention policies = a challenging and critical outlook /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Disaster prevention policies/ Patrick Pigeon, Julien Rebotier.
其他題名:	a challenging and critical outlook /
作者:	Pigeon, Patrick,
其他作者:	Rebotier, Julien,
出版者:	London :ISTE Press Ltd ; : 2016.,
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (xix, 220 p.) :ill., maps :
標題:	SOCIAL SCIENCE - General. -
電子資源:	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9781785481963
ISBN:	9780081017913 (electronic bk.)

Disaster prevention policies = a challenging and critical outlook /
Pigeon, Patrick,

Disaster prevention policiesa challenging and critical outlook /[electronic resource] :Patrick Pigeon, Julien Rebotier. - London :ISTE Press Ltd ;2016. - 1 online resource (xix, 220 p.) :ill., maps - Earth system -- environmental sciences. - Earth system -- environmental sciences..

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-218) and index.

Front Cover ; Disaster Prevention Policies: A Challenging and Critical Outlook ; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1. Disaster Prevention Policies: Paradoxical and Ambiguous Assessments; Chapter 1. The Rise in Knowledge and Policies Suggest an Increase in Disasters; 1.1. According to the EM-DAT and DesInventar databases, the number of disasters would increase; 1.2. Disaster prevention policies are proliferating on every scale; 1.3. Research on disasters and their prevention is also increasing; Chapter 2. The Contributions to Disaster Prevention are Difficult to Assess.

This book addresses disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies, focusing on reducing the paradox that exists between the compulsory implementation of DRR policies and continuing limitations.

ISBN: 9780081017913 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

834657
SOCIAL SCIENCE
--General.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HV551.2 / .P54 2016eb

Dewey Class. No.: 363.34/8

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505 8 $a Chapter 4. The Limits of Disaster Prevention: Returns on Management Experiences4.1. Returns on experience demonstrate the universal character of the limits; 4.2. Dike risk in France: an example of unintended consequences; 4.3. Segmentation and politicization of risk management in Ecuador; Part 3 Why and How Does the Prevention of Disasters Necessitate Thinking and Acting in an Imperfect World?; Chapter 5. The Principle of Cognitive Limits: Its Application to Disaster Prevention; 5.1. The analytical basis: the Cartesian method and the fragmentation of notions.
505 8 $a 5.2. Reconstitution of the analytical foundation: Pascal and the systemic attempts5.3. The limitations of analytical reconstitution: Bergson's intuition; Chapter 6. Bridging the Gap between Disaster Prevention and Environmental Concerns; 6.1. The gradual contributions of environmental interpretations to disaster prevention ; 6.2. Advantages and disadvantages for the increase in complexity for disaster prevention; Chapter 7. Reflections upon the Contribution of Social Geography to Disaster Prevention; 7.1. What epistemologies are necessary to develop environmental knowledge?
505 8 $a 7.2. Under what conditions do social sciences contribute to disaster prevention?7.3. What contributions do social sciences make to both disaster prevention and acting in an imperfect world?; Chapter 8. How Can We Best Manage Disasters?; 8.1. The knowledge management systems' contributions to disaster prevention policies; 8.2. Resistance to prevention policies: poverty and power relations, lifelong obstacles; 8.3. Evolution or revolution? The dilemma of Pahl-Wostl; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.
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