Rebuilding sustainable communities after disasters : remote islands / by Ingrid Johnston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnston, Ingrid, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency management--Pacific Area.

Emergency management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

What would you do if a category five monster cyclone was headed your way? Drive as far as you could, as quickly as you could in the opposite direction? What if there were no cars? What if there were no roads? What if you were on a tiny island? What if there was nowhere to run to? How would you feel, knowing that when it was over it could be weeks before anyone came to help?Thousands of people live with this possibility every day, and their resilience and coping skills are incredible. However, climate change threatens to make these events worse, and all the while the sea levels are rising, and

Contents:

Cyclones and the policy responses

Key research themes

The study

Experiences of disasters

Warning signs of cyclones

Disaster aid and relief

Governance and co-ordination

Expectations and dependency

Issues of remoteness

Perceptions of changes needed for the future

Issues of adaptive capacity of disaster response systems in Fiji and Tonga

Conclusions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-9412-5

OCLC:

949668719