Disaster Upon Disaster

<p> A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many aspects of disasters such as driving factors risk construction complexity of resettlement and importance of peoples' culture very little has become protocol and procedure. <em>Disaster Upon Disaster</em> illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions realities agendas and executions in the field goes on to detail contingencies predicaments old and new plights and finally advances solutions toward greatly improved outcomes.</p>