Overview
- Provides an innovative re-examination of the ‘recovery’ phase of a disaster
- Analyses the difference between post-disaster planning and realities experienced by communities
- Studies the relationships between these communities and emergency responders
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (8 chapters)
-
Technologies of Recovery and Their Role in the Recovery Myth
-
Plans and Situated Realities
-
Reflections on the Recovery Myths
Keywords
- Natural disaster
- post-disaster response
- flooding
- emergency recovery planning
- government response to disaster
- technologies of recovery
- health policy
- social policy
- community
- emergency responders
- regeneration
- National Recovery Working Group
- recovery
- plans and situated realities
- after disaster
- technical management of emergencies
- National Recovery Guidance
- ethnographic research
- recovery work
- emergency protocols
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Recovery Myth
Book Subtitle: The Plans and Situated Realities of Post-Disaster Response
Authors: Lucy Easthope
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74555-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74554-1Published: 07 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09020-3Published: 03 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74555-8Published: 26 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 272
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Governance and Government, Regional Development, Development and Sustainability, Environmental Management