From Emergency Management to Managing Emergence: A Genealogy of Disaster Management in Jamaica

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 570-588

  Grove, Kevin J ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

assemblage; biopolitics; disaster management; resilience; sustainable development

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EMPOWERMENT; GENEALOGY; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; MITIGATION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POLITICAL INTEGRATION; SAFETY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WELFARE IMPACT; PARADIGM SHIFT; PLANNING METHOD; POWER RELATIONS;

JAMAICA;

EID: 84876428592     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2012.740357     Document Type: Article

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