Book Review: Doğan Gürer and Mikdat Kadıoğlu, Olağandışı Durumlarda Yaşamı Sürdürme [Surviving in Unusual Circumstances] in Turkish. Istanbul: AFAD, 2011
Journal Title: NETSOL: New Trends in Social and Liberal Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
Since the deadly earthquakes of 1999 in densely populated areas in Western Turkey and within the vicinity of the Istanbul metropolitan area, Turkey has taken several steps to first save and then aid the people in need in times of crisis. The Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (Afet ve Acil Durum Yönetimi Başkanlığı) or AFAD its Turkish acronym was founded in 2009 to coordinate humanitarian aid in times of crisis and to prepare and educate public in order to reduce casualties when a disaster hits. Surviving in Unusual Circumstances is one of the AFAD funded publications prepared by emergency management expert Doğan Gürer and edited by another expert on the same field, Mikdat Kadıoğlu, a prominent professor of disaster management studies at Istanbul Technical University. Several disaster management experts and geological engineers are listed as contributors in the credits page as well. The book was written in an unconventional style and it appears like a mixture of academic work and a survival handbook. It is a perfect example of how academic knowledge may be implemented in practice. It is primarily written for the common Turkish reader and it largely avoids academic jargon except on a few occasions. The book has an introduction and five chapters. At the end it has a frequently asked questions section and a bibliography.
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Murat Kuş
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