Research on Social Work and Disasters

Informationen zum Autor Calvin Streeter, Susan A Murty Zusammenfassung Offers the essential strategies social work researchers, other social scientists in the area of disaster research, and emergency management personnel need to prepare for and recover from all forms of disaster. Focusing on hazard, risk, and disaster research, this book presents conceptual approaches in this important area of social work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Introduction Disaster Research in Social Work A Primer for Social Work Research on Disaster Predictors of Rural Community Survival After Natural Disaster: Implications for Social Work Practice Research as Social Action in the Aftermath of Hurricane Andrew Community Responses to Chronic Technological Disaster: The Case of the Pigeon River Social Vulnerability to Toxic Risk Inter-Agency Collaboration and Hazards Education in American Communities Reference Notes Included

Product details

• Authors: Susan A Murty, Calvin Streeter
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.02.1997
• EAN: 9780789003034
• ISBN: 978-0-7890-0303-4
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, Social welfare and social services, Aid & relief programmes, Social impact of disasters, Social research & statistics, Social research and statistics, Aid and relief programmes, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)