Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Theories
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Beschreibung
This Open Access Book is the first to examine disasters from a multidisciplinary perspective. Justification of actions in the face of disasters requires recourse both to conceptual analysis and ethical traditions. Part 1 of the book contains chapters on how disasters are conceptualized in different academic disciplines relevant to disasters. Part 2 has chapters on how ethical issues that arise in relation to disasters can be addressed from a number of fundamental normative approaches in moral and political philosophy. This book sets the stage for more focused normative debates given that no one book can be completely comprehensive. Providing analysis of core concepts, and with real-world relevance, this book should be of interest to disaster scholars and researchers, those working in ethics and political philosophy, as well as policy makers, humanitarian actors and intergovernmental organizations.
This Open Access Book is the first to examine disasters from a multidisciplinary perspective. Justification of actions in the face of disasters requires recourse both to conceptual analysis and ethical traditions. Part 1 of the book contains chapters on how disasters are conceptualized in different academic disciplines relevant to disasters. Part 2 has chapters on how ethical issues that arise in relation to disasters can be addressed from a number of fundamental normative approaches in moral and political philosophy. This book sets the stage for more focused normative debates given that no one book can be completely comprehensive. Providing analysis of core concepts, and with real-world relevance, this book should be of interest to disaster scholars and researchers, those working in ethics and political philosophy, as well as policy makers, humanitarian actors and intergovernmental organizations..
This book is open access, with free and unlimited access thanks to COST, an EU-funded Horizon 2020 programme The first book covering both conceptual and normative issues in relation to disasters Written by a multidisciplinary and international group of leading disaster scholars Takes a broad perspective covering various conceptual issues and ethical traditions applied to practical situations
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Dónal P. O’Mathúna
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Open Access disaster bioethics disaster ethics humanitarian action natural hazards international law normative theories humanitarian aid disaster research public health preparedness emergency medicine epidemiology of disasters political philosophy intergovernmental organizations