The Recovery Myth The Plans and Situated Realities of Post-Disaster Response /

• Main Author: Easthope, Lucy (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Public policy.; Political science.; Economic development.; Economic development-Environmental aspects.; Environmental management.; Public Policy.; Governance and Government.; Regional Development.; Development and Sustainability.; Environmental Management.

This book provides an innovative re-examination of the 'recovery' phase of a disaster by one of the UK's most experienced disaster management specialists. Drawing on two decades' of work, the book develops an ethnography of the residents and responders in one flooded village and...

Table of Contents:

• 1: Introduction
• 2: Chapter One - In pursuit of the plan: Ordering devices in disaster
• 3: Chapter Two - Flood Tales and Fantasy Documents
• 4: Chapter Three - Value, Waste and the 'Furniture of Self'
• 5: Chapter Four - Re-imagining Technologies of Recovery
• 6: Chapter Five - Lifescapes in Recovery
• 7: Chapter Six - Co-production of 'Afterwards': Survivance in Toll Bar
• 8: Conclusions.