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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Adenrele AwotonaPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Edition: Unabridged edition Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 21.20cm Weight: 0.839kg ISBN: 9781443837392ISBN 10: 1443837393 Pages: 570 Publication Date: 27 July 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsI strongly recommend this book to researchers, professionals, managers and everyone who are potential victims of disasters and who have to create awareness, understanding and actions in emergency planning and response. - Gulsun Saglamer, Professor of Architecture and Former Rector, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey; Former Chair of the European Council of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP). This book will make a very-much-needed contribution to the analysis and procurement of resources needed when catastrophes occur. You may be aware that the Minister for Overseas Development in the UK recently bewailed inadequacies in swiftly bringing international resources to bear when major calamities happen. Chapters in this book highlight such problems and address solutions. It should therefore be an important guide to governments and resource providers worldwide for appropriate action in the face of unforeseeable major disasters. [...] In addition, the text will make clear definitions of social vulnerability. This is an area exercising the minds of many governments around the world. In Britain in 2011 we saw reactions to the economic climate; but the picture has become confused as various politicians give their slant on public disorder. Chapters in this book should help to clarify the situations and behaviours of people who are most vulnerable. Through this one might hope that Governments will more sensibly be guided in finding a response which permanently and sympathetically ameliorates the situation for many people. [...] Professor Awotona is an expert in the fields this book addresses, and has worked for many years with others in attempting to find permanent solutions in physical form as well as in social relationships, to lift the lot of the worst effected by natural disasters and poor governmental administration. - William Frank Hill, Professor of Architecture (retired), Surrey, United Kingdom. Author InformationAdenrele Awotona is the Director of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. He was a Director of Studies for the British Council International Seminars (Reconstruction after disasters) in the United Kingdom. His publications include Rebuilding Sustainable Communities for Children and their Families after Disasters: A Global Survey (edited, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010) and Rebuilding Sustainable Communities in Iraq: Policies, Programs and International Perspectives (edited, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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