The book will probe the state of the art of disaster knowledge in several of the most puzzling areas

Contributors are acknowledged experts in their fields

The work will strive for an integration and synthesis of key ideas but will probe past easy explanations for hazard such as "lack of political will"

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction: The New Environmental Crisis.- Part I: Locating Disaster Studies.- Chapter 2. Launching the DRC: Historical Context and Future Directions(Thomas E. Drabek).- Chapter 3. Disaster Studies at 50: Time to Wear Bifocals?(Ben Wisner).- Part II: Confronting the Second Environmental Crisis.- Chapter 4. The Silence Before the Storm: Advocacy Groups' Current Perceptions of Future Climate Vulnerability(Carlos Martin).- Chapter 5. Beautiful and Safe Landscapes for Sustainable Disaster Risk Reduction.(Fausto Marincioni, Cristina Casareale, and Kenneth Byrne).- Chapter 6. Mobilizing Communities to Confront Global Challenges: A Phronetic Inquiry.(Philip Barnes and Andrea Sarzynski).- Chapter 7. Sleepwalking into disaster? Understanding Coping in the Broader Field of Mental Barriers.(Anna Lena Bercht).- Chapter 8. Growing the Constituency: A 21st Century Challenge. (James K. Mitchell).- Chapter 9. The Role of Landscape Experience in Disaster Risk Reduction.(Sara Bonati).- Part III: Old Problems with New Solutions.- Chapter 10. Building Disaster Resilience on the Edge of Chaos - A Systems Critique on Mechanistic Global Disaster Reduction Policies, Frameworks and Models.(Christo Coetzee, Dewald van Niekerk and Leandri Kruger).- Chapter 11. Services Not Required? Assessing the Need for 'Coordination Agencies' during Disaster Response.(Johanu Botha).- Chapter 12. Categories of Success: How Do We Make Who Listens?(Rachel Dowty and William Wallace).- Chapter 13. The Emergency Manager as Risk Manager 5.(Patrick S. Roberts, Kris Wernstedt, Joseph Arvai, and Kelly Redmond).- Chapter 14. Disaster Response as Secondary Hazard.(Malka Older).- Chapter 15.- Compromise and Action: Tactics for Doing Ethical Research in Disaster Zones.(Jennifer Henderson and Max Liboiron).- Chapter 16. Ethics in Disaster Research: A New Declaration.(James Kendra and Sarah Gregory).- Chapter 17. A Case for the Grand Challenge of Disaster Science.(Tricia Wachtendorf). <p