Rivalling Disaster Experiences

The Case of the Seismo-Volcanic Crisis of El Hierro, Canary Islands
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5512-4
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

Reihe: Social and cultural geography

People experience disasters very differently. Conflicts about a 'correct' interpretation of the risks might arise. The side-by-side of different truths lead to people seeing mismanagement and disinformation. The volcanic crisis of El Hierro shows how rivalling interpretations amongst affected islanders, the media, sciences, and disaster response institutions cause great social tensions and scepticism towards scientific information. Thus, to fully understand disaster risk, the focus must shift to the rifts between established convictions and the individuals' creativity to overcome them, taking into account their embeddedness in various fields of practice, each with their own rationales and ruptures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Orlowski, Benedikt M.

Orlowski, Benedikt

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Über Autor(innen)

Orlowski, Benedikt M.
Benedikt M. Orlowski (Dr.) arbeitet am Amt für Stadtforschung und Statistik der Stadt Nürnberg.

Benedikt M. Orlowski, born in 1979, works as a research associate at the Department for Urban Research and Statistics in Nürnberg. The human geographer did his doctorate at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and is a member of the working group on 'Cultures and Disasters' at the local Institute for Geography. In 2015, he co-edited a volume on Cultures and Disasters which has become a seminal book in its field. His research focus is on human geography, particularly the geography of risk and cross-disciplinary approaches to volcanic risk, and risk and the media.