Displaced by Disaster: Recovery and Resilience in a Globalizing World

by Ann-Margaret Esnard and Alka Sapat

Book Overview

Displacement has traditionally been conceptualized as a phenomenon that results from conflict or other disruptions in developing or unstable countries. Hurricane Katrina shattered this notion and highlighted the various dilemmas of population displacement in the United States. The dilemmas stem from that of inconsistent terminology and definitions; lack of efforts to quantify displacement risk potential and that factor displacement vulnerability...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415856043
• ISBN13: 9780415856041
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"