The phoenix of natural disasters : community resilience / Kathryn Gow and Douglas Paton editors.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2008.Description: vi, 275 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:- 1604561610
- 9781604561616
- 303.485 22
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | Australian Emergency Management Library | BOOK | 303.485 PHO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 900103574 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rising from the ashes: empowering the phoenix -- Community resilience: integrating individual, community and societal perspectives -- Post traumatic responses in disasters: a community perspective -- Situating and framing individual and community experience and response to hazards: a psychological perspective -- Measuring resilience to psychological outcomes of natural disasters: more questions than answers -- Ways in which paramedics cope with, and respond to, natural large-scale disasters -- Journalists reporting for duty: resilience, trauma and growth -- Never underestimate SES workers: volunteers, a case in point -- The Royal Australian Navy and operations other than war -- Emergence of new volunteerism: increasing community resilience to natural disasters in Japan -- Quiet achievers: women's resilience to a seasonal hazard -- Community coping: resilience models for preparation, intervention and rehabilitation in manmade and natural disasters -- Bushfires: preparation, resilience and recovery -- Resilience, adaptive capacity and posttraumatic growth in Thai communities following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami -- Conclusion: applying learnings [sic] about resilience and coping across service organisations, communities and individuals.
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