Disaster management and the role of community in a post-modern age / Dr. Graham Marsh.

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Marsh, Graham

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307 22

Review: "This paper seeks to address the issue of disaster and risk management by starting with the concept of community and not from the risk itself. Drawing upon research currently being conducted in Australia into vulnerability and resilience, this paper questions whether many risk managers understand the complexities involved in understanding and working with ?the community?. Also questioned is whether such managers understand where the individual ?fits in? to our societies and if individuals are missed within recovery processes as they don?t fit within the ?boxes? that are used to categorise people. In a post-modern world sociology has much to offer by providing disaster managers with a more clearly defined understanding of the world in which they operate, and, ways of incorporating 'the community' into risk and disaster management and recovery." -- p. 1.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	307 MAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		900181413

"This paper seeks to address the issue of disaster and risk management by starting with the concept of community and not from the risk itself. Drawing upon research currently being conducted in Australia into vulnerability and resilience, this paper questions whether many risk managers understand the complexities involved in understanding and working with ?the community?. Also questioned is whether such managers understand where the individual ?fits in? to our societies and if individuals are missed within recovery processes as they don?t fit within the ?boxes? that are used to categorise people. In a post-modern world sociology has much to offer by providing disaster managers with a more clearly defined understanding of the world in which they operate, and, ways of incorporating 'the community' into risk and disaster management and recovery." -- p. 1.

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