Disaster discourses, policy values and institutional responses: The social construction of urban floods in the peri-urban interface of Mexico City - Couverture souple

Aragon-Durand, Fernando

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 384438068X ISBN 13 : 9783844380682

Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

An interesting contemporary study of the processeswhereby scientists, policy makers and vulnerable people constructdiscourses of urban risk and floods. This study developed a socialconstructionist analysis of ́natural ́ disaster at the policy level for Mexico byfocusing on arguments, discourses and rhetorical elements. Theinterpretivist analysis of disaster policies carried out in thisresearch highlighted the importance of taking into consideration the existenceof different, and often contested, policy values which underpindifferent policy responses. It explained the rhetorical and discursivepower of ́disaster causal ́ stories in constructing reality of ChalcoValley‘s floods, peri- urban interface of Mexico City, and provided a methodto examine the inundations causality as a policy problem.

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À propos de l'auteur

Fernando Aragon-Durand is a PhD in Planning Studies (UCL),London, UK, specialised in risk, vulnerability and disaster analysis in Latin Americaurban contexts. Dr. Aragon-Durand is a member of the IPCC expert panel of the working groupII "Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation" for the 5th assessment report.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 384438068X
• ISBN 13: 9783844380682
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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