00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-8027390931312542544 Buklod 20210322164502.0 o--- | || || ta 180629s2019 enkm rb a001 0|eng d 9780745671024 (iLib)UPCEB-00012051349 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO OCLCF BDX YDX OCLCQ UKMGB CHVBK OCLCO YDX HRM OCLCO OCLCA AZZPT WMC eng pcc HV 553 T54 2019 HV 553 T54 2019 Tierney, Kathleen J. author. Disasters a sociological approach Kathleen Tierney. Cambridge, UK Medford, MA Polity Press c2019 xiv, 311 pages illustrations 26 cm. Prof. Kim Bondoc (Recommending faculty) - Bookfair 2019 Includes bibliographical references and index. Acknowledgments -- The social significance of disasters -- Disaster research in historical context : early insights and recent trends -- Sociological research on disasters : key contributions from other disciplines -- Theoretical approaches and perspectives in the study of hazards and disasters -- Confronting disaster research challenges -- Disaster vulnerability -- Disaster resilience : concepts, measures, and critiques -- What the future holds : greater risks and impacts or greater coping capacity? -- Notes -- References -- Index. "Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at its very core. This important book sheds light on the social conditions and on the global, national, and local processes that produce disasters. Topics covered include the social roots of disaster vulnerability, exposure to natural hazards such as hurricanes and tsunamis as a form of environmental injustice, and emerging threats. Written by a leading expert in the field, this book provides the necessary frameworks for understanding hazards and disasters, exploring the contributions of very different social science fields to disaster research and showing how these ideas have evolved over time. Bringing the social aspects of recent devastating disasters to the forefront, Tierney discusses the challenges of conducting research in the aftermath of disasters and critiques the concept of disaster resilience, which has come to be seen as a key to disaster risk reduction. Peppered with case studies, research examples, and insights from very different disciplines, this rich introduction is an invaluable resource to students and scholars interested in the social nature of disasters and their relation to broader social forces"--Amazon.com. Disasters Social aspects. Disasters Research. Online version Tierney, Kathleen J. Disasters. Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2018] 9781509535699 (DLC) 2018031922. FO UPCEB CEBU-LAHUG HV 553 T54 2019 Book