There is a perennial gap between theory and practice, between academia and
active professionals in the field of disaster management. This gap means that
valuable lessons are not learned and people die or suffer as a result. This book
opens a dialogue between theory and practice. It offers vital lessons to
practitioners from scholarship on natural hazards, disaster risk management and
reduction and developments studies, opening up new insights in accessible
language with practical applications. It also offers to academics the insights
of the enormous experience practitioners have accumulated, highlighting gaps in
research and challenging assumptions and theories against the reality of
experience. "Disaster Management "covers issues in