Hardback
Living with Pandemics
Places, People and Policy
9781800373587 Edward Elgar Publishing
Providing an integrated and multi-level analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 on people, place, economies and policies, across the globe, this timely book explores how the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic combines failure with success. It focuses on exploring rapid adaptation and improvisation by individuals, organisations, and governments as they attempted to minimise and mitigate the socio-economic and health impacts of the pandemic.
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Providing an integrated and multi-level analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 on people, place, economies and policies, across the globe, this timely book explores how the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic combines failure with success. It focuses on exploring rapid adaptation and improvisation by individuals, organisations and governments as they attempted to minimise and mitigate the socio-economic and health impacts of the pandemic.
Interdisciplinary chapters written by social policy, geography, planning, policy, sociology and public health experts explore the broader impacts of COVID-19, positioning the pandemic in the context of wider trends and risks including climate change. Chapters highlight the importance of place and local contexts in understanding its impacts in different settings including Europe, Canada, North America, South Korea, South Africa and Lebanon. In doing so, the book develops a pandemic preparedness, responsiveness and recovery research framework and intends to inform post-pandemic policy development and research.
This is an important book for geography, social policy, politics, urban studies, planning and business and management researchers and students, particularly those focusing on crisis management and risk and resilience. With key case studies from across the globe, it will help elucidate key issues for policy makers and practitioners across a range of sectors including strategic management, social policy, public health and the built environment.
Interdisciplinary chapters written by social policy, geography, planning, policy, sociology and public health experts explore the broader impacts of COVID-19, positioning the pandemic in the context of wider trends and risks including climate change. Chapters highlight the importance of place and local contexts in understanding its impacts in different settings including Europe, Canada, North America, South Korea, South Africa and Lebanon. In doing so, the book develops a pandemic preparedness, responsiveness and recovery research framework and intends to inform post-pandemic policy development and research.
This is an important book for geography, social policy, politics, urban studies, planning and business and management researchers and students, particularly those focusing on crisis management and risk and resilience. With key case studies from across the globe, it will help elucidate key issues for policy makers and practitioners across a range of sectors including strategic management, social policy, public health and the built environment.
Critical Acclaim
‘This book captures a very specific moment in our current lives: the rise of a formidable pandemic, one more aggressive and more global than prior pandemics. It has already killed more people than have some of our major wars. The authors add what is too often left out: how do we prepare for future pandemics? We already know they will come.’
– Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, US
– Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, US
Contributors
Contributors include: Mina Akhavan, Kira Allmann, Jillian Anable, Lauren Andres, Suzanne Bartington, Megan Blake, Frances Brill, John Bryson, Paul Cairney, Natàlia Cugueró-Escofet, Andrew Davies, Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens, Iain Docherty, Aksel Ersoy, Tom Forth, Arianna Giovannini, Charles Goode, Vincent Gruis, Steve Gulati, Jin-Tae Hwang, Anna Lavis, Nichola Lowe, Mina Di Marino, Ilaria Mariotti, Greg Marsden, Keith J. Mason, Paul Moawad, Jessica Pykett, Mike Raco, Peter Rautenbach, Ben Rayner, Louise Reardon, Maria Savona, Katrina du Toit, Kiran Seeley, Ardita Shkurti, Pere Suau-Sanchez, Angus Thomas, Matthew Thomas, Vida Vanchan, Tara Vinodrai, Augusto Voltes-Dorta, Holly Westlake
