| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 471 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
The challenge of disasters and our approach -- The disaster pressure and release model -- Access to resources and coping in adversity -- Famine and natural hazards --Biological hazards -- Floods -- Coastal storms -- Earthquakes and volcanoes -- Towards a safer environment |
| Summary |
The term 'natural disaster' is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase 'natural disaster' suggests an uncritical acceptance of a deeply engrained ideological and cultural myth. At Risk questions this myth and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed. The new edition of At Risk confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and deadly disasters since it was first published and discusses disaster not as an aberration, but as a signal failure of mainstream 'development'. Two analytical models are provided as tools for understanding vulnerability. One links remote and distant 'root causes' to 'unsafe conditions' in a 'progression of vulnerability'. The other uses the concepts of 'access' and 'livelihood' to understand why some households are more vulnerable than others. The book then concludes with strategies to create a safer world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-446) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Natural disasters.
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Disasters.
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Emergency management.
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Disasters
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Natural Disasters
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Disaster Planning
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natural disasters.
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disasters.
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disaster planning.
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NATURE -- Natural Disasters.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disasters & Disaster Relief.
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Désastres naturels.
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Emergency management
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Disasters
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Natural disasters
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Naturkatastrophe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wisner, Ben
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| ISBN |
0203428765 |
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9780203428764 |
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9781134528608 |
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1134528604 |
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6610109613 |
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9786610109616 |
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9780203714775 |
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0203714776 |
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0415252156 |
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9780415252157 |
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0415252164 |
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9780415252164 |
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