Korstanje, M E (2011) Reconnecting with poverty: New challenges of disaster management. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, 2(2), pp. 165-177. ISSN 1759-5916
Abstract
Purpose: It is clear that poverty can be a key factor to take into consideration at time of potentiating or mitigating the unexpected aftermaths of disasters. In some extent, the degree of vulnerability created by poverty leads scholars to preclude material conditions of life plays a pivotal role in disaster rebuilt. Nonetheless, the present paper aims to explore precisely the connection between the false conceptualization of poverty as pathways towards the conditions of disasters with the disaster in such. Design/methodology/approach: This thesis is that the poverty is a humanitarian disaster often intellectualized as cause of disaster in order for real liable actors not assume their faults. The conceptual contributions of this paper pave the pathways for the advent of a new debate in disaster and recovery issues. Findings: This paper questions the classical idea that poverty plays a positive role in the process of recovery after a disaster paving the pathways for the triggering of a hot debate in disaster management. Originality/value: The originality of this work refers to the needs of reconsidering how late-modernity replicates the conditions for what the disaster has been feasible. Not only this accommodates all our previous belief in how dealing with victims and survivors but explores the cynicism between suffering and mass consumption.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | disasters; humanitarian disasters; mitigation; poverty; resilience |
| Index terms: | disaster management, poverty, recovery, humanitarian, consumption, methodology, vulnerability, mitigation, paving |
| Subjects: | principle, operations management, consumer economics, sociology, transportation engineering, environmental hazards, research methods, financial risk |
| Topics: | Sustainability, Stakeholder Management, Engineering Principles, Project Management, Research Practice, Cost Management, Ethics |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCT |
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