Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises write by Dorothea Hilhorst. This book was released on 2013-07-18. Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Humanitarian crises - resulting from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse – are usually perceived as a complete break from normality, spurring special emergency policies and interventions. In reality, there are many continuities and discontinuities between crisis and normality. What does this mean for our understanding of politics, aid, and local institutions during crises? This book examines this question from a sociological perspective. This book provides a qualitative inquiry into the social and political dynamics of local institutional response, international policy and aid interventions in crises caused by conflict or natural disaster. Emphasising the importance of everyday practices, this book qualitatively unravels the social and political working of policies, aid programmes and local institutions. The first part of the book deals with the social life of politics in crisis. Some of the questions raised are: What is the meaning of human security in practice? How do governments and other actors use crises to securitize – and hence depoliticize - their strategies? The second part of the book deals with the question how local institutions fare under and transform in response to crises. Conflicts and disasters are breakpoints of social order, with a considerable degree of chaos and disruption, but they are also marked by processes of continuity and re-ordering, or the creation of new institutions and linkages. This part of the book focuses on institutions varying from inter-ethnic marriage patterns in Sri Lanka to situation of institutional multiplicity in Angola. The final part of the book concerns the social and political realities of different domains of interventions in crisis, including humanitarian aid, peace-building, disaster risk reduction and safety nets to address chronic food crises. This book gives students and researchers in humanitarian studies, disaster studies, conflict and peace studies as well as humanitarian and military practitioners an invaluable wealth of case studies and unique political science analysis of the humanitarian studies field.
Crises in a New World Order: Challenging the Humanitarian project
Crises in a New World Order: Challenging the Humanitarian project - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crises in a New World Order: Challenging the Humanitarian project write by Edmund Carins. This book was released on . Crises in a New World Order: Challenging the Humanitarian project available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
What is a Disaster?
What is a Disaster? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What is a Disaster? write by E.L. Quarantelli. This book was released on 2005-06-27. What is a Disaster? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Are conflict situations such as the ethnic clashes in Yugoslavia or Rwanda, terrorist attacks and riots, the same kind of social crises as those generated by natural and technological happenings such as earthquakes and chemical explosions? In What is a Disaster?, social science disaster researchers from six different disciplines advance their views on what a disaster is. Clashes in conceptions are highlighted, through the book's unique juxtaposition of the authors separately advanced views. A reaction paper to each set of views is presented by an experienced disaster researcher; in turn, the original authors provide a response to what has been said about their views. What is a Disaster? sets out the huge conceptual differences that exist concerning what a disaster is, and presents important implications for both theory, study and practice.
Managing Emergencies and Crises
Managing Emergencies and Crises - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Managing Emergencies and Crises write by Naim Kapucu. This book was released on 2011-10-13. Managing Emergencies and Crises available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Managing Emergencies and Crisis provides future public administrators and policymakers with a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, socio-cultural, and political dimensions of natural and human-made disasters, as well as providing them with the tools needed for confronting the challenges of preparedness and response.--[book cover]
Collaborative Crisis Management
Collaborative Crisis Management - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Collaborative Crisis Management write by Fredrik Bynander. This book was released on 2019-11-27. Collaborative Crisis Management available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Public organizations are increasingly expected to cope with crisis under the same resource constraints and mandates that make up their normal routines, reinforced only through collaboration. Collaborative Crisis Management introduces readers to how collaboration shapes societies’ capacity to plan for, respond to, and recover from extreme and unscheduled events. Placing emphasis on five conceptual dimensions, this book teaches students how this panacea works out on the ground and in the boardrooms, and how insights on collaborative practices can shed light on the outcomes of complex inter-organizational challenges across cases derived from different problem areas, administrative cultures, and national systems. Written in a concise, accessible style by experienced teachers and scholars, it places modes of collaboration under an analytical microscope by assessing not only the collaborative tools available to actors but also how they are used, to what effect, and with which adaptive capacity. Ten empirical chapters span different international cases and contexts discussing: Natural and "man-made" hazards: earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires, terrorism, migration flows, and violent protests Different examples of collaborative institutions, such as regional economic communities in Africa, and multi-level arrangements in Canada, the Netherlands, Turkey, and Switzerland Application of a multimethod approach, including single case studies, comparative case studies, process-tracing, and "large-n" designs. Collaborative Crisis Management is essential reading for those involved in researching and teaching crisis management.
