ABSTRACT

Growing debates around governance are taking place among academic, policy-making, and practice-based communities. In light of the increasing focus on governance, this book presents and discusses governance as a framework that is able to both conceptualize and contextualize risks and disasters as currently experienced and managed into social systems.

Contributions offer a variety of perspectives, experiences and socio-cultural contexts which have identified the challenges, opportunities and critiques of promoting governance. Part I explores approaches, models, and keywords as applied to risk and disaster governance theory. Part II investigates practices of risk governance and associated issues by focusing on disaster risk reduction policy and practice. Finally, Part III explores practices of disaster governance and associated issues, by focusing on disaster recovery experiences. This book highlights cutting-edge recent theoretical and empirical trends and is a valuable resource for students, academics, practitioners and policy-makers interested in risk and disaster governance.

chapter |7 pages

Governing risks, hazards and disasters in the0ry and practice

An introduction and overview of the book

part I|89 pages

Governance of risk and disasters

chapter 3|22 pages

The disaster chronotope

Spatial and temporal learning in governance of extreme events

chapter 4|16 pages

Governance of risk and disasters

Considerations on the role of citizen participation in L’Aquila (Italy)

chapter 5|17 pages

Disaster governance and democracy

Meta-legal Praxis in L’Aquila (Italy)

part III|121 pages

Disaster governance

chapter 10|17 pages

Disaster governance

A political ecology perspective on land, housing and property rights violations

chapter 11|16 pages

Armed forces in disaster response

Problems and perspectives on disaster governance in India

chapter 12|15 pages

Disaster diplomacy and disaster governance from a Balkan perspective

Post-earthquake rapprochement in Greece–Turkey

chapter 13|13 pages

Disaster governance and the rise of social media

Ethnographic perspectives from Germany

chapter 14|24 pages

Social media and disaster governance

Twitter use in recent floods in Italy

chapter 16|14 pages

Is disaster education just knowledge transmission?

Co-learning and disaster governance in Japan