Emergency preparedness through community cohesion : an integral approach to resilience / Jean Parker.
This book is a revision of the author's original doctoral thesis on emergency preparedness through community radio in North Indian villages into a widening array of possible reapplications in other community development fields. The author expands on the process of transforming emergency prepare...
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Routledge,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Acronyms; 1 Constructing resilience: from preparing for emergencies to community economic sustainability; Part I My inner and outer call: the subjective calling and the objective challenge; 2 An unlikely story: my subjective inner calling and burning desire; Introduction; Section 1: The formative years; Section 2: Awakening consciousness; Section 3: The fun and romance of radio leading to real meaningfulness.
- 3 Defining the objective problem
- disasters: a challenge for India, humanity and the planet; Introduction; Section 1: Creating "safer communities" in the global context; Section 2: Focusing on India; Section 3: Information Communications Technology and emergency preparedness education in India; Part II Exploring the context: introducing Uttarakhand; 4 The context: exploring Uttarakhand: "The Land of the Gods"; Introduction; Section 1: Setting the stage for emergency preparedness: an overview of Uttarakhand; Section 2: Gahrwal and Kumaon: imbalances, emergencies and community radio stations.
- Part III Co-creating for resilience: transformation through participatory research; 5 Co-creating together: gaining knowledge through telling stories; Introduction; Section 1: Introducing Research-to-Innovation through the narrative method; Section 2: From individuals to a collective: a story of an emerging collaboration; Section 3: Our collective narrative: raising the consciousness of the research ecosystem; 6 What goes wrong and what goes right: correcting the impediments to community cohesion and resilience, and analyzing imbalances in theory and practice in India and beyond; Introduction.
- Section 1: Analyzing imbalances: what goes wrong and why; Section 2: Toward a new integral theory of emergency preparedness education; 7 How the research was done: reflections and new applications; Introduction; Section 1: Communities participating in research: generating indigenous knowledge; Section 2: Voices from Uttarakhand: local realities, global effects and the application of the Intecritical Framework; Section 3: Reflections on the research environment: the unique challenges of limited time and money, a border blockade and cultural complexity.
- Part IV Contributing to transformation: from learning about emergencies to developing constructive resilience; 8 Transformational innovation: the contribution of the Uttarakhand research to community resilience; Introduction; Section 1: Community radio practitioners and listeners as contributors to innovation; Section 2: Activating the Integral Worlds and the Intecritical Framework: from theory to action in Uttarakhand and beyond; 9 From theory to action: creating constructive resilience through reawakening community consciousness; Introduction.