Governing disasters : beyond risk culture /: beyond risk culture. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sandrine Revet, Julien Langumier.
• Editors: Revet, Sandrine; Langumier, Julien
• Contents: PART I: ANTICIPATION, PREPAREDNESS AND CONTROVERSIES 1. Governing by Hazard: Controlling Mudslides and Promoting Tourism in the Mountains above Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan), 1966-1977, Marc Elie 2. Monitoring Animals, Preparing Humans: An Ethnographical Study of Avian Influenza, Frédérick Keck PART II: PARTICIPATION AND CONSULTATION 3. Cultivating Communities after Disaster: A Whirlwind of Generosity on the Coasts of Sri Lanka, Mara Benadusi 4. A Critical Look at the 'Risk culture': France's 'Plan Rhône'; Julien Langumier PART III: ISSUES OF MEMORY 5. Memory and methodology: Translocal and Transtemporal Fieldwork in Post-Disaster Santa Fe (Argentina), Susann Ullberg, 6. Laura Centemeri, Investigating the 'Discrete Memory' of the Seveso Disaster in Italy Postscript: Thinking (by way of) Disaster; Nicolas Dodier.
• Edition: 2015
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 363.348; Emergency management -- Government policy; Crisis management -- Government policy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137435460
• Related ISBNs: 9781137435453
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