Gebundenes Buch

Community Disaster Recovery and Resiliency

Exploring Global Opportunities and Challenges

Herausgeber: Miller, Demond S.; Rivera, Jason David

Beschreibung

With contributions and editorial guidance from experts throughout the field, this book examines diverse community examples that form a framework for comparing best practices, illustrating how communities can reduce their vulnerability to disasters and recover more quickly. It identifies opportunities and challenges communities must face on the road to recovery, providing an interdisciplinary, social scientific perspective. The book emphasizes non-traditional approaches to disaster recovery and rebuilding communities and compares the rebuilding of community between different nations at different stages of development and economic power and stability.

Autor

DeMond Shondell Miller is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the Liberal Arts and Sciences Institute for Research and Community Service at Rowan University (Glassboro, New Jersey). He has worked as principal investigator to facilitate research projects involving natural and human-induced ecological disasters, environmental issues, and community satisfaction. His primary area of specialization is environmental sociology (disaster studies and the study of the social construction of place), community development and community organizing, and social impact assessment. Dr. Miller has presented and published several professional papers; recent examples of such work can be found in Space and Culture: An International Journal of Social Spaces, International Journal of the Humanities, Journal of Black Studies, The Journal of Public Management and Social Policy, Sociological Spectrum, and The International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research. Recently, he has contributed to several edited volumes including Through the Eye of Katrina: Social Justice in the United States and The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe; he is the co-author of Hurricane Katrina and the Redefinition of Landscape with Jason D. Rivera (Lexington Press) and coeditor of African American and Community Engagement in Higher Education: Community Service, Service Learning and Community-Based Research with S. Evans, C. Taylor, and M. Dunlap (State University of New York Press). Jason David Rivera is a Research Associate in the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. His research focuses on social vulnerability to natural and manmade disasters with an emphasis on minority experiences. Additionally, his research highlights institutional structures that have historically perpetuated social vulnerability within minority and low-income communities. These research findings have been incorporated into policy recommendations that make mitigation, response, and recovery more efficient. Examples of his work can be found in the Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Applied Security Research: Prevention and Response in Asset Protection, Terrorism and Violence, the Journal of Public Management and Social Policy, Sociological Spectrum, The Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Space and Culture, The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe, Through the Eye of the Storm: Social Justice in the United States, and Dangers in the Incommensurability of Globalization: Socio-Political Volatilities. He is coauthor of Hurricane Katrina and the Redefinition of Landscape, with DeMond S. Miller (Lexington Press).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 636
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1109g
• ISBN-13: 9781420088229
• ISBN-10: 142008822X
• Artikelnr.: 29949017