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Disasters and the quality of life / edited by Elya Tzaneva (Editor-in-Chief), with Mila Maeva, Yelis Erolova and Jiang Wei.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disasters--Social aspects.
- Disasters.
- Quality of life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2023]
- Summary:
- This volume presents and analyses unique empirical data from countries hit by floods, earthquakes, bio-infections (including COVID-19), technological catastrophes, migrations and mobilities, and other social effects, in order to provide a model of ethnological research on disasters of different types. Special attention is given to their role in the communities' quality of life. The book introduces an analytical contribution to adequate policy for the prevention of disasters, response and liquidation of their consequences and restoring quality of life.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Part One
- Disasters and the Quality of Children's Lives
- Natural Disaster in the "Third Age"
- Media Image of Roma Community in the Context of Natural Disaster
- Voices of the Evangelical Roma Coping with a Natural Disaster
- A "Special" Disaster and its Effect on the Quality of Life of Local People
- Part Two
- Social Adaptation and Cultural Reconstruction in Eco-Migrant Communities
- Migration and the Post-Disaster Wellbeing of a Local Community
- Ageing and Dying in Buddhist Nursing Homes
- Historical Writing and Changes in the Public Awareness of Disaster Epidemics from the Perspective of Religion
- Post-Disaster Management
- Part Three
- A Chinese Way of Fighting COVID-19
- The Interplay between the Real-Historical and the Mythological in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Coping with Global Disasters
- Abbreviations
- Editors and Contributors.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Tzaneva, Elya Disasters and the Quality of Life
- ISBN:
- 9781527590632
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