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Natural Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability Floods and slum life in Indonesia

Name: Natural Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability
Author: Roanne van Voorst

Auteur: Roanne van Voorst

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Roanne van Voorst Roanne van Voorst

Engels
Hardcover
9781138860537
Druk: 1
februari 2016
162 pagina's

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Roanne van Voorst

Roanne van Voorst (1983) is journalist en antropoloog. Ze schrijft zowel non-fictie als fictie. In 2010 debuteerde zij met Jullie zijn anders als ons. Jong en Allochtoon in Nederland. In 2013 schreef zij het korte verhaal 'Een e-mail vol herinneringen', waarmee ze de juryprijs won van de schrijfwedstrijd Indische Bladzijde. In 2014 promoveerde ze cum laude aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Ze woont en werkt in Amsterdam en soms in Indonesië. Op bol.com vind je alle boeken van Roanne van Voorst, waaronder het nieuwste boek van Roanne van Voorst.

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Different people handle risk in different ways. The current lack of understanding about this heterogeneity in risk behaviour makes it difficult to intervene effectively in risk-prone communities. Natural Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability offers a unique insight in the everyday life of a group of riverbank settlers in Jakarta - one of the most vulnerable areas worldwide in terms of exposure to natural hazards. Based on long-term fieldwork, the book portrays the often creative and innovative ways in which slum dwellers cope with recurrent floods. The book shows that behaviour that is often described as irrational or ineffective by outside experts can be highly pragmatic and often effective. This book argues that human risk behaviour cannot be explained by the risk itself, but instead by seemingly unrelated factors such as trust in authorities and aid-institutions and unequal power structures. By considering a risk as a lens that exposes these factors, a completely new type of analysis is proposed that offers useful insights for everyone concerned about how people cope with the currently increasing amount of natural hazard. This is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policy makers in the areas of risk studies, disaster and natural hazard, urban studies, anthropology, development, Southeast Asian studies and Indonesia studies.

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