ISOKIA Science is an independant private institute concerned with research, development, reviews and consulting in several relevant topics:
Social prerequisites of disasters (acceleration of risks by individual and organisational behaviour and actions) and possibilities to manage and control them.
Socioeconomic questions of disaster stages (analysis of organisational and governmental actions, needs of the inhabitants) and ways to improve the match between them.
Societal learning from disasters (including traditional knowledge about natural hazards).
Strategies to reduce vulnerability of inhabitants, communities, organisations and economic structures to future hazards and to improve resilience.
Strengthening the base for local economic development.
Participation of inhabitants in risk communication, improvement of public risk awareness, improvement of communication and information structure, media programs and trainings.
Improvement and reconstruction of social and public infrastructure.
Changeover of the pre- and post disaster development to Sustainable Development within population, organisations and total society (including improvement and reconstruction of social and public infrastructure).
Capacity building for disaster risk management (Improvement of the capacity of governments and administrations from the national to the community level to manage disasters and mitigate risks).
Societal and cultural conditions of early warning and alarm systems).
After finishing her university degree in geology (Dipl.-Geol.) Dr. phil. habil. Elke M. Geenen, founder of ISOKIA, studied sociology, psychology and geophysics. Third-party funded projects followed dealing with i.a. questions on equal oppurtunities, childcare and women in science and administration. Ph.D. thesis on sociological problems of earthquake disasters, especially in Turkey. Technology assessment of probable innovative early-warning technologies. Research assistant at the Institute of Sociology at Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel. Habilitation with a script on the "sociology of the stranger". Venia legendi for sociology.
Main research focus on general sociology (sociology of the stranger, system theoretics, social differentiation, civilization theory), accelerated social change, risk and disaster sociology, gender-research, empirical social research.
Recent publication:
Elke M. Geenen, Bevölkerungsverhalten und Möglichkeiten des Krisenmanagements und Katastrophenmanagements in multikulturellen Gesellschaften. Herausgegeben vom Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe (BBK), FiB Bd. 11, Bonn 2010.
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