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| Title: | Improving Theory and Research on Hazard Mitigation: Political Economy and Organizational Perspectives |
| Authors: | Tierney, Kathleen J. |
| Keywords: | Disaster Research
Natural Hazards
Mitigation
Theory
Politics
Organizations |
| Issue Date: | Nov-1989 |
| Publisher: | Research Committee on Disasters, International Sociological Association |
| Citation: | International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters |
| Series/Report no.: | Article
212 |
| Abstract: | This paper opens with a discussion of the progress that has been made to date in research and theory on mitigation. It goes on to suggest approaches that, by addressing neglected aspects of mitigation-related issues, may improve our understanding of the topic. Woven through the paper are calls for several shifts in emphasis with respect to studies on mitigation: (1) from a social system, consensus model to a conflict model on society and community; (2) from an event-based, discontinuous concept of disaster and mitigation to a view that stresses the continuity between ongoing social life and the disruption occasioned by natural and technological agents; (3) from the study of the social consequences of disasters to the study of aspects of the social order that increase risk and lead to disasters; and (4) from an individualistic, social psychological approach to mitigation to a perspective that takes into account macrolevel social phenomena. |
| URI: | http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/handle/19716/2774 |
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