Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments x
5. Introduction. Defining Disaster upon Disaster: Why Risk Prevention and Disaster Response So Often Fail 1
6. Part I. Illuminating the Fissures: Suppositions, Realities, Agendas, and Execution
7. Introduction 19
8. Chapter 1. Unwieldy Disasters: Engaging the Multiple Gaps and Connections That Make Catastrophes 23
9. Chapter 2. Advocacy and Accomplishment: Contrasting Challenges to Successful Disaster Risk Management 41
10. Chapter 3. Natural Hazard Events into Disasters: The Gaps between Knowledge, Policy, and Practice as It Affects the Built Environment through Development 70
11. Chapter 4. Humanitarian Response: Ideals Meet Reality 88
12. Chapter 5. Disaster Theory versus Practice? It Is a Long Rocky Road: A Practitioner’s View from the Ground 111
13. Part II. Situations and Expositions: Plights, Problems, and Quandaries
14. Chapter 6. Slow-Onset Disaster: Climate Change and the Gaps between Knowledge, Policy, and Practice 135
15. Chapter 7. Disrupting Gendered Outcomes: Addressing Disaster Vulnerability through Stakeholder Participation 172
16. Chapter 8. Resettlement for Disaster Risk Reduction: Global Knowledge, Local Application 198
17. Chapter 9. From Nuclear Things to Things Nuclear: Minding the Gap at the Knowledge-Policy-Practice Nexus in Post-Fallout Fukushima 218
18. Chapter 10. “Haitians Need to Be Patient”: Notes on Policy Advocacy in Washington Following Haiti’s Earthquake 241
19. Part III. Revamping Apparatus and Outcome
20. Chapter 11. The Scope and Importance of Anthropology and Its Core Concept of Culture in Closing the Disaster Knowledge to Policy and Practice Gap 265
21. Chapter 12. Engaged: Applying the Anthropology of Disaster to Practitioner Settings and Policy Creation 292
22. Chapter 13. Future Matter Matters: Disasters as a (Potential) Vehicle for Social Change—It’s About Time 313
23. Index 333