Disaster resilience :.

By:

Paton, Douglas

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Charles C Thomas, c2006. Springfield, Ill. :Description: xxii, 321 p. ; 27 cmISBN:

0398076634
0398076642

DDC classification:

363.34/7 22

LOC classification:

HV553 .P37 2006

Partial contents:

Ch. 1. Disaster resilience: building capacity to co-exist with natural hazards and their consequences / Douglas Paton Ch. 2. Identifying the characteristics of a disaster resilient society / Douglas Paton and David Johnston Ch. 3. Natural hazards / C.E. Gregg and B.F. Houghton Ch. 4. Lifelines and urban resilience / David Johnston, Julia Becker, and Jim Cousins Ch. 5. Hazard mitigation: a priority for sustainable communities / Robert O. Schneider Ch. 6. Assessing social resilience / Philip Buckle Ch. 7. Natural hazard resilience: the role of individual and household preparedness / Douglas Paton,John McClure,and Petra T. Brgelt Ch. 8. Weathering the storm: women's preparedness as a form of resilience to weather-related hazards in Northern Australia / Alison Cottrell Ch. 9. Encouraging protective behaviors in communities / Leigh Smith Ch. 10. Links between Community and Individual Resilience: Evidence from cyclone affected communities in North West Australia / Julie Ann Pooley, Lynne Cohen, and Moira O'Connor Ch. 11. The Hakka Spirit as a predictor of resilience / Li-Ju Jang and Walter LaMendola Ch. 12. Exploring the complexity of social and ecological resilience to hazards / Douglas Paton, Gail Kelly, and Michael Doherty Ch. 13. The Media, bushfires and community resilience / W. Peter Hughes and Peter B. White Ch. 14. Economic resilience to disasters: towards a consistent and comprehensive formulation / Adam Rose Ch. 15. Managing company risk and resilience through business continuity management / Douglas Paton and Rosemary Hill Ch. 16. Resilience in emergency management: managing the flood / Douglas Paton and Trevor Auld Ch. 17. Planning for hazard resilient communities / David King Ch. 18. Disaster resilience: integrating individual, community, institutional and environmental perspectives / Douglas Paton.

Review: "This book will fill the gaps that hamper the effective utilization of the resilience and sustainability concepts within emergency planning: one concerns the lack of a comprehensive review of this multi-level concept; the second relates to its multi-level nature. Specifically, the text identifies a need for the systematic integration of these different levels in a manner that illustrates the holistic contribution of the resilience concept to emergency planning. By integrating these different levels in a manner that illustrates the holistic contribution of the resilience concept to emergency planning, a comprehensive working model of disaster resilience and sustainability can be developed. The text discusses the resources and strategies required at each level to facilitate resilience and how they can be integrated to develop a sustained capacity to adapt to nature (and other) hazard consequences. The nature and implications of these inter-relationships will be developed throughout the text and will lead towards the development of a comprehensive, integrated model of community resilience. A key focus of the text will thus be its articulating the inter-relationships between these levels. The importance of basing emergency planning on the holistic application of the concept will also be discussed. By representing resilience in a holistic manner, the text will also constitute a resource capable of assisting assessment of the community implications of any shortfall of resilience resources for emergency planning and for community recovery planning. The book brings together contributions from international experts in core areas. It includes chapters that provide an overarching framework within which the need for inter-relationships between levels to be developed is discussed. It also includes sections that link chapters to progressively develop a holistic multi-level model, and a chapter that describes the final comprehensive model and its implications for contemporary emergency management. It will be useful to those researching or teaching courses in emergency management, disaster management, community development, environmental planning, urban development, sociology, and applied psychology, as well as to emergency management agencies, risk management agencies, engineers and consultants, planners, emergency and law enforcement agencies, and social and welfare agencies." -- BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book will fill the gaps that hamper the effective utilization of the resilience and sustainability concepts within emergency planning: one concerns the lack of a comprehensive review of this multi-level concept; the second relates to its multi-level nature. Specifically, the text identifies a need for the systematic integration of these different levels in a manner that illustrates the holistic contribution of the resilience concept to emergency planning. By integrating these different levels in a manner that illustrates the holistic contribution of the resilience concept to emergency planning, a comprehensive working model of disaster resilience and sustainability can be developed. The text discusses the resources and strategies required at each level to facilitate resilience and how they can be integrated to develop a sustained capacity to adapt to nature (and other) hazard consequences. The nature and implications of these inter-relationships will be developed throughout the text and will lead towards the development of a comprehensive, integrated model of community resilience. A key focus of the text will thus be its articulating the inter-relationships between these levels. The importance of basing emergency planning on the holistic application of the concept will also be discussed. By representing resilience in a holistic manner, the text will also constitute a resource capable of assisting assessment of the community implications of any shortfall of resilience resources for emergency planning and for community recovery planning. The book brings together contributions from international experts in core areas. It includes chapters that provide an overarching framework within which the need for inter-relationships between levels to be developed is discussed. It also includes sections that link chapters to progressively develop a holistic multi-level model, and a chapter that describes the final comprehensive model and its implications for contemporary emergency management. It will be useful to those researching or teaching courses in emergency management, disaster management, community development, environmental planning, urban development, sociology, and applied psychology, as well as to emergency management agencies, risk management agencies, engineers and consultants, planners, emergency and law enforcement agencies, and social and welfare agencies." -- BOOK JACKET.

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