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Introduction: The New Environmental Crisis

Authors : James Kendra, Scott G. Knowles, Tricia Wachtendorf

Published in: Disaster Research and the Second Environmental Crisis

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The genesis of this book was the 50th Anniversary Workshop and Celebration of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware in 2014. In marking that milestone in the history of the center, we wanted a workshop in which participants would reflect on what is known about disaster science—much of which is owed to DRC, to its long lineage of intellectual descendants, and to their scholarly cousins in a variety of fields. We wanted to assess where that knowledge is uncertain, where new or reinforced knowledge is needed, and also to think about the state of practice. For this collection, authors were explicitly encouraged to be provocative; to be iconoclastic; to be speculative; to try as best possible to bring in new ideas or different approaches to familiar themes. In this first chapter, we consider some of today’s pressing environmental challenges and the associated research needs, moving from there to introduce the chapters and their overall contributions to this volume.

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Metadata
Title
Introduction: The New Environmental Crisis
Authors
James Kendra
Scott G. Knowles
Tricia Wachtendorf
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Disaster Research and the Second Environmental Crisis

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-04689-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-04691-0

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04691-0_1