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Human Service Organizations in the Disaster Context
Kate Van Heugten
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Description for Human Service Organizations in the Disaster Context
Hardcover. This book offers unique insights into challenges faced by human service workers striving to achieve social justice in the aftermath of disasters. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFC; JH; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 396.
Human Service Organizations in the Disaster Context explores the efforts of human service practitioners to support communities facing the impacts of large-scale hazardous events. Using the stories of frontline workers and managers who lived through devastating earthquakes in Canterbury, New Zealand in 2010 and 2011, and drawing on international research and sociological theory, van Heugten astutely analyses the challenges and opportunities that arise. In the immediate aftermath of disasters, there is often a surge in altruism giving rise to hope for improved social cohesion. This hope wanes when negative impacts fall unequally on people living in poverty and other vulnerable ... Read more
Human Service Organizations in the Disaster Context explores the efforts of human service practitioners to support communities facing the impacts of large-scale hazardous events. Using the stories of frontline workers and managers who lived through devastating earthquakes in Canterbury, New Zealand in 2010 and 2011, and drawing on international research and sociological theory, van Heugten astutely analyses the challenges and opportunities that arise. In the immediate aftermath of disasters, there is often a surge in altruism giving rise to hope for improved social cohesion. This hope wanes when negative impacts fall unequally on people living in poverty and other vulnerable ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
209
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137389602
SKU
V9781137389602
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Kate Van Heugten
Kate van Heugten is Associate Professor of Human Services and Social Work at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
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