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Resilience in the Pacific and the Caribbean: The Local Construction of Disaster RiskReduction
Swedish Defence University, Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership (ISSL), Political Science Section, Sektionen för krishantering och internationell samverkan.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3509-146x
2021 (English)Book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This book critically examines the global diffusion and local reception of resiliencethrough the implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) programmes inPacific and Caribbean island states.Global efforts to strengthen local disaster resilience capacities have become astaple of international development activity in recent decades, yet the successfulimplementation of DRR projects designed to strengthen local resilience remainselusive. While there are pockets of success, a gap remains between global expectationsand local realities. Through a critical realist study of global and localworldviews of resilience in the Pacific and Caribbean islands, this book arguesthat the global advocacy of DRR remains inadequate because of a failure to prioritisea person-orientated ethics in its conceptualisation of disaster resilience.This regional comparison provides a valuable lens to understand the underlyingsocial structures that makes resilience possible and the extent to which local governments,communities and persons interpret and modify their behaviour on riskwhen faced with the global message on resilience.This book will be of much interest to students of resilience, risk management,development studies and area studies.

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Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2021. , p. 206
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Routledge Studies in Resilience
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Social Sciences Political Science
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Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan
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URN: urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-9408Libris ID: m00z5nmvksb06n77ISBN: 978-0-367-07628-3 (print)ISBN: 978-0-429-02169-5 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:fhs-9408DiVA, id: diva2:1464809
Available from: 2020-09-08 Created: 2020-09-08 Last updated: 2021-01-12Bibliographically approved

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