Spontaneous Venturing An Entrepreneurial Approach to Alleviating Suffering in the Aftermath of a Disaster

• Main Author: Shepherd, Dean A. (auth)
• Other Authors: Williams, Trenton A. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2018
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Aid & relief programmes; Entrepreneurship; natural disaster; disaster recovery; entrepreneurship; Black Saturday; Australia; fire; Haiti; earthquake; resilience; bricolage
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Identifying a new approach to disaster response: spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions to alleviate suffering. In Spontaneous Venturing, Dean Shepherd and Trenton Williams identify and describe a new approach for responding to disaster and suffering: the local organizing of spontaneous,...