The Recovery Myth

The Plans and Situated Realities of Post-Disaster Response
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-030-09020-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 371 g

This book provides an innovative re-examination of the ‘recovery’ phase of a disaster by one of the UK’s most experienced disaster management specialists. Drawing on two decades’ of work, the book develops an ethnography of the residents and responders in one flooded village and applies this to other cases of UK flooding, as well as to post-disaster recovery in New Zealand. The book shows how localised emergency responders find ways to collaborate with residents, and how an informal network uses nationally generated instruments differently to co-produce regeneration within a community. The book considers the plethora of government instruments which have been produced to affect recovery, including checklists, templates and guidance documents, and discusses approaches to community resilience and recovery risk management. The book appeals to students and scholars of Government and Public Policy, Disaster and Emergency Management, Community Resilience, Law, Sociology and Geography.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Easthope, Lucy

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part One - Technologies of Recovery and their role in the Recovery Myth
Chapter One - In pursuit of the plan: Ordering devices in disasterChapter Two - Flood Tales and Fantasy DocumentsChapter Three - Value, Waste and the ‘Furniture of Self’
Part Two - Plans and Situated Realities

Chapter Four - Re-imagining Technologies of RecoveryChapter Five - Lifescapes in RecoveryChapter Six - Co-production of ‘Afterwards’: Survivance in Toll Bar
Part Three: Reflections on Recovering

Chapter 7 - Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Lucy Easthope is Deputy Director of Research, Lincoln Law School, University of Lincoln, UK, Senior Fellow of the Emergency Planning College and Research Affiliate at the Joint Centre for Disaster Research.