Title Details: | |
Risks and disasters |
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Other Titles: |
Concepts and tools for evaluation, protection, management |
Authors: |
Sapountzaki, Kalliopi Dandoulaki, Miranta |
Reviewer: |
Balias, Georgios |
Subject: | NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > EARTH SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY > TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING > REGIONAL AND URBAN PLANNING ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY > TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING > RURAL AND SURVEYING ENGINEERING > NATURAL GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENT LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > SOCIOLOGY |
Keywords: |
Risk
Disaster Crisis Hazard Vulnerability Resilience Exposure Risk perception |
Description: | |
Abstract: |
The textbook presents, analyses, interprets and maps the basic theoretical tools for understanding and managing risks, crises and disasters (natural, environmental, na-tech), to which a number of related disciplines (geography, sociology, psychology, engineering and political sciences) have contributed. In particular, the text focuses on the management concepts/tools attributed to the terms 'Risk', 'Exposure', 'Vulnerability', 'Adaptivity', 'Risk Recruitment'. Each management concept/tool is accompanied by a chapter highlighting mutually reinforcing theoretical issues and empirical examples, which conclude with the corresponding tools and methods of regulation offered to mitigate crises and disasters, reduce losses or recover already affected communities and areas. In a separate chapter, the dynamics in space-time and the interactions of the above-mentioned conditions/instruments are examined. The aim of the textbook, through the consolidation of these tools, is to enhance the ability of readers/students to identify the trigger from the causes of disasters and to distinguish the immediate from the root causes of hazards and catastrophic losses. In addition, the aim is to develop readers' ability to formulate alternative 'management pathways' for risk, crisis and disaster management for evaluation and implementation in the context of a modern approach to Risk Governance.
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Type: |
Undergraduate textbook |
Creation Date: | 18-05-2016 |
Item Details: | |
ISBN |
978-960-603-305-6 |
License: |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/gr |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-705 |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/6297 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Sapountzaki, K., & Dandoulaki, M. (2016). Risks and disasters [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-705 |
Language: |
Greek |
Consists of: |
1. Introduction 2. Terminology and Theoretical Instruments of the Field of "Risk and Disaster Management": Interdisciplinarity or a Babel? 3. Determination Assessment and Mapping of Hazard and Exposure 4. Vulnerability approach and mapping methodologies. Mitigation measures 5. Seeking adaptability of the operational unknown versus vulnerabiliy 6. Risk perception - Approach methods and its importance for risk management 7. Approaches to risk - Moving from management to governance 8. Instead of an epilogue: from the past to the present and to the future of dangers and disasters |
Number of pages |
456 |
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