02274nam a22002537a 4500999001700000020001800017041000900035082002400044100002800068245011700096260003300213300003200246504005100278520125500329546001301584650005801597650005601655650003701711650005501748650004901803650002201852942001201874952013401886  c37919d37919  a9780367568399  aeng-  a363.34609729bHOL-R  aHollis, Simon eAuthor.  aResilience in the Pacific and the Caribbean :bThe Local Construction of Disaster Risk Reduction /cSimon Hollis  aNewyork :bRoutledge,c2022.  a218p.b16 B/W Illustrations  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aThis book critically examines the global diffusion and local reception of resilience through the implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) programmes in Pacific and Caribbean island states.

Global efforts to strengthen local disaster resilience capacities have become a staple of international development activity in recent decades, yet the successful implementation of DRR projects designed to strengthen local resilience remains elusive. While there are pockets of success, a gap remains between global expectations and local realities. Through a critical realist study of global and local worldviews of resilience in the Pacific and Caribbean islands, this book argues that the global advocacy of DRR remains inadequate because of a failure to prioritise a person-orientated ethics in its conceptualization of disaster resilience. This regional comparison provides a valuable lens to understand the underlying social structures that makes resilience possible and the extent to which local governments, communities and persons interpret and modify their behaviour on risk when 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.  aEnglish.  aEmergency managementxSocial aspectszCaribbean Area.  aEmergency managementxSocial aspectszPacific Area.  aRisk managementxSocial aspects.  aNatural disastersxSocial aspectszCaribbean Area.  aNatural disasxSocial aspectszPacific Area.  aCritical realism.  2ddccBK  00104070aNASSDOCbNASSDOCd2023-03-16eOverseasg0.00l0o363.34609729 HOL-Rp53547r2023-06-05 00:00:00v0.00w2023-06-05yBK