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Pigeon, Patrick,

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    Title/Author: Disaster prevention policies/ Patrick Pigeon, Julien Rebotier.
    Reminder of title: a challenging and critical outlook /
    Author: Pigeon, Patrick,
    other author: Rebotier, Julien,
    Published: London :ISTE Press Ltd ; : 2016.,
    Description: 1 online resource (xix, 220 p.) :ill., maps
    [NT 15003449]: Front Cover ; Disaster Prevention Policies: A Challenging and Critical Outlook ; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1. Disaster Prevention Policies: Paradoxical and Ambiguous Assessments; Chapter 1. The Rise in Knowledge and Policies Suggest an Increase in Disasters; 1.1. According to the EM-DAT and DesInventar databases, the number of disasters would increase; 1.2. Disaster prevention policies are proliferating on every scale; 1.3. Research on disasters and their prevention is also increasing; Chapter 2. The Contributions to Disaster Prevention are Difficult to Assess.
    [NT 15003449]: 2.1. Disasters are not increasing according to all databases2.2. Not necessarily more disasters, but definitely more to lose; 2.3. There is not always more mortality associated with disasters; 2.4. The markets interested in disaster prevention; Part 2. Understanding and Managing Disaster Risk: The Multiple Limits of Specialized Approaches; Chapter 3. The Limits of Understanding Disasters; 3.1. The place and status of inherent uncertainty in databases; 3.2. Disaster risk: ambiguous definitions; 3.3. The difficult search for a conceptual model of disaster prevention.
    [NT 15003449]: Chapter 4. The Limits of Disaster Prevention: Returns on Management Experiences4.1. Returns on experience demonstrate the universal character of the limits; 4.2. Dike risk in France: an example of unintended consequences; 4.3. Segmentation and politicization of risk management in Ecuador; Part 3 Why and How Does the Prevention of Disasters Necessitate Thinking and Acting in an Imperfect World?; Chapter 5. The Principle of Cognitive Limits: Its Application to Disaster Prevention; 5.1. The analytical basis: the Cartesian method and the fragmentation of notions.
    [NT 15003449]: 5.2. Reconstitution of the analytical foundation: Pascal and the systemic attempts5.3. The limitations of analytical reconstitution: Bergson's intuition; Chapter 6. Bridging the Gap between Disaster Prevention and Environmental Concerns; 6.1. The gradual contributions of environmental interpretations to disaster prevention ; 6.2. Advantages and disadvantages for the increase in complexity for disaster prevention; Chapter 7. Reflections upon the Contribution of Social Geography to Disaster Prevention; 7.1. What epistemologies are necessary to develop environmental knowledge?
    [NT 15003449]: 7.2. Under what conditions do social sciences contribute to disaster prevention?7.3. What contributions do social sciences make to both disaster prevention and acting in an imperfect world?; Chapter 8. How Can We Best Manage Disasters?; 8.1. The knowledge management systems' contributions to disaster prevention policies; 8.2. Resistance to prevention policies: poverty and power relations, lifelong obstacles; 8.3. Evolution or revolution? The dilemma of Pahl-Wostl; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.
    Subject: Emergency management. -
    Online resource: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9781785481963
    ISBN: 9780081017913 (electronic bk.)
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