Preston, J and Kolokitha, M (2015) City evacuations: their pedagogy and the need for an inter-disciplinary approach. In: City evacuations: an interdisciplinary approach. Springer, 1 - 20. Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43877-0_1
Preston, J and Kolokitha, M (2015) City evacuations: their pedagogy and the need for an inter-disciplinary approach. In: City evacuations: an interdisciplinary approach. Springer, 1 - 20. Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43877-0_1
Preston, J and Kolokitha, M (2015) City evacuations: their pedagogy and the need for an inter-disciplinary approach. In: City evacuations: an interdisciplinary approach. Springer, 1 - 20. Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43877-0_1
Abstract
We consider an overview of city evacuation policy with particular reference to the United Kingdom and using a conceptual framework which considers evacuations and invacuations to be pedagogical. Taking an historical perspective, with a focus on the United Kingdom, the chapter considers the reasons for a gradual move from a policy of city evacuation in WWII towards an ‘invacuation’ policy in the Cold War. It then explores more recent policies of ‘flexible response’ to a range of contingencies with mixed invacution / evacuation policies being proposed. We illustrate this with an examination of websites for evacuation / invacuation preparedness in UK cities. Recent trends in mobility, social media and communication technologies present increasing interdisciplinary problems for evacuation modelling.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology, Department of |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jan 2018 12:56 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Feb 2019 14:15 |
| URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/21082 |