A Decade of Disaster Experiences in Otautahi Christchurch : Critical Disaster Studies Perspectives
1st ed. 2022
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
9811668655
ISBN-13
9789811668654
Edition
1st ed. 2022
Publisher
Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 16th, 2023
Print length
405 Pages
Product Classification:
Political structure & processesPublic administrationHuman geography
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This book critically surveys a decade of disasters in Otautahi Christchurch. The events and the subsequent recovery provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn from a series of concatenating urban disasters in order to prepare us for our future on an urban planet facing unprecedented environmental pressures.
This book critically surveys a decade of disasters in Ōtautahi Christchurch. It brings together a diverse range of authors, disciplinary approaches and topics, to reckon with the events that commenced with the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence. Each contribution tackles its subject matter through the frame of Critical Disaster Studies (CDS). The events and the subsequent recovery provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn from a series of concatenating urban disasters in order to prepare us for our future on an urban planet facing unprecedented environmental pressures. The book focuses on the production of vulnerability, the human dimensions of disaster, the Indigenous response to disasters and the practical lessons that can be drawn from them.
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