At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters - Softcover

Blaikie, Piers; Cannon, Terry; Davis, Ian; Wisner, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415084776 ISBN 13: 9780415084772

Verlag: Routledge, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

At Risk reasserts the significance of the human factor in disasters. Establishing that the social, political and economic environment is as much a cause of disasters as the natural environment, the book argues that disaster mitigation is rooted in the potential humans have to understand their vulnerability and to take common action.
Famines and drought, biological hazards, floods, coastal storms, earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides: At Risk draws practical and policy conclusions with a view to disaster reduction and the promotion of a safer environment.

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Many disasters are a complex mix of natural hazards and human action. At Risk argues that the social, political and economic environment is as much a cause of disasters as the natural environment. Published within the International Decade of Natural Hazard Reduction, this book suggests ways in which both the social and natural sciences can be analytically combined through a 'disaster pressure and release' model. Arguing that the concept of vulnerability is central to an understanding of disasters and their prevention or mitigation, the authors explore the extent and ways in which people gain access to resources. Individual chapters apply analytical concepts to famines and drought, biological hazards, floods, coastal storms, and earthquakes, volcanos and landslides - the hazards that become disasters'. Finally, the book draws practical and policy conclusions to promote a safer environment and reduce vulnerability.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0415084776
• ISBN 13: 9780415084772
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 298
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar