Resilience in the Pacific and the Caribbean : The Local Construction of Disaster Risk Reduction / Simon Hollis
By: Hollis, Simon [Author.].
Publisher: Newyork : Routledge, 2022Description: 218p. 16 B/W Illustrations.ISBN: 9780367568399.Subject(s): Emergency management -- Social aspects -- Caribbean Area | Emergency management -- Social aspects -- Pacific Area | Risk management -- Social aspects | Natural disasters -- Social aspects -- Caribbean Area | Natural disas -- Social aspects -- Pacific Area | Critical realismDDC classification: 363.34609729 Summary: This book critically examines the global diffusion and local reception of resilience through the implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) programmes in Pacific and Caribbean island states. Global efforts to strengthen local disaster resilience capacities have become a staple of international development activity in recent decades, yet the successful implementation of DRR projects designed to strengthen local resilience remains elusive. While there are pockets of success, a gap remains between global expectations and local realities. Through a critical realist study of global and local worldviews of resilience in the Pacific and Caribbean islands, this book argues that the global advocacy of DRR remains inadequate because of a failure to prioritise a person-orientated ethics in its conceptualization of disaster resilience. This regional comparison provides a valuable lens to understand the underlying social structures that makes resilience possible and the extent to which local governments, communities and persons interpret and modify their behaviour on risk when faced with the global message on resilience. This book will be of much interest to students of resilience, risk management, development studies, and area studies.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book critically examines the global diffusion and local reception of resilience through the implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) programmes in Pacific and Caribbean island states.
Global efforts to strengthen local disaster resilience capacities have become a staple of international development activity in recent decades, yet the successful implementation of DRR projects designed to strengthen local resilience remains elusive. While there are pockets of success, a gap remains between global expectations and local realities. Through a critical realist study of global and local worldviews of resilience in the Pacific and Caribbean islands, this book argues that the global advocacy of DRR remains inadequate because of a failure to prioritise a person-orientated ethics in its conceptualization of disaster resilience. This regional comparison provides a valuable lens to understand the underlying social structures that makes resilience possible and the extent to which local governments, communities and persons interpret and modify their behaviour on risk when faced with the global message on resilience.
This book will be of much interest to students of resilience, risk management, development studies, and area studies.
English.
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