Wildfire and power: policy and practice

"This book brings together perspectives from sociology, political science, gender studies, and history to produce new ways of analysing wildfire preparedness and policy in Australia. Drawing on data from hundreds of interviews with residents, volunteers and emergency services professionals livi...

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Other Authors: Fairbrother, Peter (Editor), Tyler, Meagan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Routledge 2019
Series:Routledge studies in employment and work relations in context
Routledge studies in employment and work relations in context
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:"This book brings together perspectives from sociology, political science, gender studies, and history to produce new ways of analysing wildfire preparedness and policy in Australia. Drawing on data from hundreds of interviews with residents, volunteers and emergency services professionals living and working in wildfire-prone areas, the authors focus on issues of power and inequality, the contested nature of community and the relationship between citizens and the state. The book questions not only existing policy approaches, but also the central concepts on which they are founded. In doing so, the aim is to create a more conceptually robust and academically contextualised discussion about the limitations of current wildfire policy approaches in Australia and to provide further evidence of the need for disaster studies to engage with a variety of social science approaches. Wildfire and Power: Policy and Practice will be of most interest to higher degree by research students, other academics and policy makers examining the evolving patterns and politics of work, employment, management and industrial relations as well as those involved in emergency and disaster management service delivery. It would be most suited to academic and public libraries as well as organisations in the field of emergency and disaster management"--
Physical Description:1 online resource 1 map
ISBN:9780429428142
0429428146
9780429766114
0429766114
9780429766107
0429766106
9780429766091
0429766092

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