Review of Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction

Citation

Connon I (2016) Review of Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction. Review of: Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction. Krüger, Fred, Greg Bankoff, Terry Cannon, Benedikt Orlowski, and E. Lisa F. Schipper, eds. New York: Routledge, 2015. 282 pp. ISBN 978-0415745604. Environment and Society, 7 (1), pp. 139-143. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26204979

Abstract
Recent changes in climate behavior characterized by the increasing severity and frequency of extreme environmental disasters present challenges for community members living in hazard-prone areas throughout the world and for scholars and practitioners working in the field of “disaster risk reduction.” Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction is an edited volume that provides a rich collection of theoretical and practical case studies that highlight the significance of culture for enhancing understandings of responses to natural disaster events and for devising disaster-response strategies that are responsive to local socio-cultural contexts.

Journal
Environment and Society: Volume 7, Issue 1

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Dr Irena Connon

Lecturer, Social Work