794 research outputs found
Governance of Risk, Hazards and Disasters
No full textGrowing debates around governance are taking place among academic, policy-making, and practice-based communities. In light of the increasing focus on governance, this book presents and discusses governance as a framework that is able to both conceptualize and contextualize risks and disasters as currently experienced and managed into social systems.
Contributions offer a variety of perspectives, experiences and socio-cultural contexts which have identified the challenges, opportunities and critiques of promoting governance. Part I explores approaches, models, and keywords as applied to risk and disaster governance theory. Part II investigates practices of risk governance and associated issues by focusing on disaster risk reduction policy and practice. Finally, Part III explores practices of disaster governance and associated issues, by focusing on disaster recovery experiences. This book highlights cutting-edge recent theoretical and empirical trends and is a valuable resource for students, academics, practitioners and policy-makers interested in risk and disaster governance
Governing risks, hazards and disasters in theory and practice. An introduction and overview of the book
No full textGrowing debates around governance are taking place among academic, policy-making, and practice-based communities. In light of the increasing focus on governance, this book presents and discusses governance as a framework that is able to both conceptualize and contextualize risks and disasters as currently experienced and managed into social systems.
Contributions offer a variety of perspectives, experiences and socio-cultural contexts which have identified the challenges, opportunities and critiques of promoting governance. Part I explores approaches, models, and keywords as applied to risk and disaster governance theory. Part II investigates practices of risk governance and associated issues by focusing on disaster risk reduction policy and practice. Finally, Part III explores practices of disaster governance and associated issues, by focusing on disaster recovery experiences. This book highlights cutting-edge recent theoretical and empirical trends and is a valuable resource for students, academics, practitioners and policy-makers interested in risk and disaster governance
Emberiza calandra
No full textRecopilación de observaciones de ecología general, anidamiento y cría del triguero (Miliaria calandra, nombrada por el autor como Emberiza calandra) realizadas durante varias salidas a diferentes enclaves de la provincia de Valladolid, Magaz de Pisuerga (Palencia), Toro (Zamora) y Burgos, entre el 7 de julio de 1947 y el 2 de julio de 1948.Compilation of nesting, breeding and general ecology observations of the Corn Bunting (Miliaria calandra, refered as Emberiza calandra by the author) carried out during some trips to different areas of the province of Valladolid, Magaz de Pisuerga (Palencia), Toro (Zamora) and Burgos, between the 7th of July of 1947 and the 2nd of July of 1948
Practices after a Disaster: Geographical Narratives vs Territorial Dispersion
No full textAfter the earthquake on 6 April 2009, L’Aquila becomes more fragmented and dispersed physically, socially, and culturally. This transformation is closely bound up with some emergency solutions as the realization of segmented and separated residential zones that determine internal inequalities. L’Aquila knows a growing sense of fear, mistrust, uneasiness and a decreasing sense of cohesion towards a social polarization typical of larger cities. What most damages the community capacity to retain its potential for communication, participation, exchange, sociability is the sudden or accelerated replacement of open and public spaces with separated and private areas. In the context of the urban transformation after the disaster that changed daily life of people and communities within the Municipality of L’Aquila, participation can represent a practice of regeneration to face urban fragmentation and territorial dispersion (Calandra, 2012). Some researchers of the Department of Human Studies, University of L’Aquila (Italy), have developed and are applying, according to the “trial-and-error” strategy, a methodology of communication and participation in research practices. It will be explained the geographical narrative issued from the participatory/participating research that involved citizens, students and scientists together (Cahill, 2007; Fuller, Kitchin, 2004; Pain, 2014) and that emphasizes the importance of places in the everyday life of people for their psycho-physical health and for the welfare of the entire community
Laboratorio città: una proposta di comunicazione e partecipazione tra scienza, politica e società
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