Disaster's Impact on Livelihood and Cultural Survival
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Disaster's Impact on Livelihood and Cultural Survival

Losses, Opportunities, and Mitigation

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Disaster's Impact on Livelihood and Cultural Survival

Losses, Opportunities, and Mitigation

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Many facets of disasters generate interest among scholars and practitioners. However, a vital area of disaster research is consistently underemphasized. Little is written about the immediate and long-term impacts on a community's livelihood systems and the customs and practices of the culture affected. Disaster's Impact on Livelihood and Cultural S

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Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9781482248449
Edition
1
Topic
Droit
Subtopic
Science médico-légale

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. List of Tables
  5. Foreword
  6. Introduction
  7. Editor
  8. Contributors
  9. Chapter 1: Cultural Aspects of Risk to Environmental Changes and Hazards : A Review of Perspectives
  10. Chapter 2: Disaster Risk Governance in Ecosystem-Dependent Livelihoods Exposed to Multiple Natural Hazards in Uganda
  11. Chapter 3: Gender Considerations for Disaster Management Practices
  12. Chapter 4: Disaster Resettlement Organizations and the Culture of Cooperative Labor in the Ecuadorian Andes
  13. Chapter 5: Taking the High Ground : Impact of Public Policy on Rebuilding Neighborhoods in Coastal Japan after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
  14. Chapter 6: Creating Community after Disaster : Norm Formation in Post-Hurricane Mitch Resettlements in Honduras
  15. Chapter 7: Culture as a Long-Term Coping Mechanism for Resettlement Trauma : French Pied-Noir Associations and Post-Algerian War Displacement
  16. Chapter 8: Precious Water : Impact of Drought on Farming Communities in Southwest Kansas
  17. Chapter 9: Examining Social Resilience : Post-Tsunami Livelihood Rehabilitation and Its Impacts on Households and Communities in Kamphuan, Ranong, Thailand
  18. Chapter 10: Livelihood Losses, Recovery, and Opportunities for Cultural Revitalization : Experience from the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in People’s Republic of China
  19. Chapter 11: Peace Building and Livelihood Restoration in Human-Made Disaster : A Case from Gujarat, India
  20. Chapter 12: Pathways to Economic Livelihood Recovery : A Study of Tsunami-Affected Communities in Tamil Nadu, India
  21. Chapter 13: Marketing and Material Goods : Impact of Disaster Responders on Livelihood Strategies
  22. Chapter 14: Social Impact of Typhoon Bopha on Indigenous Communities, Livelihoods, and Conflict in Mindanao
  23. Chapter 15: Sociocultural Survival in the Face of Looming Disaster : The Gitga’at First Nation’s Opposition to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Project
  24. Chapter 16: Layering of Natural and Human-Caused Disasters in the Context of Sea Level Rise : Coastal Louisiana Communities at the Edge
  25. Chapter 17: Above the Rising Tide : Tribes in Coastal Louisiana’s Apply Local Strategies and Knowledge to Adapt to Rapid Environmental Change
  26. Chapter 18: The Emergency Community : A Grassroots Model for Post-Disaster Redevelopment
  27. Chapter 19: Lifestyle Practices and Cultural Survival after the L’Aquila Earthquake (Italy, 2009) : A New Adaptive Challenge between Smart City and Resilient Landscapes
  28. Chapter 20: Faith, Communities, and Disaster
  29. Chapter 21: Social Recovery in Disasters : Cultural Resistance of Luizenses
  30. Back Cover