TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoffman,Susanna M.
AU  - Barrios,Roberto E.
TI  - Disaster upon disaster: exploring the gap between knowledge, policy, and practice 
T2  - Catastrophes in context
SN  - 9781789203455
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Disasters
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Disaster relief
KW  - Emergency management
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many aspects of the gap, such as driving factors, risk construction, complexity of resettlement, and importance of peoples' culture, very little has gotten into protocol and procedure. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field, goes on to detail contingencies, predicaments, old and new plights, and finally advances solutions and the matter of outcomes"--
ER  -