Mapping Vulnerability : Disasters, Development and People

Greg Bankoff

ISBN 10: 1853839639 / ISBN 13: 9781853839634

Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jan 2004, 2004

Beschreibung

Neuware - \* Major disasters increased over 93 per cent during the 1990s, reaching 712 in 2001. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781853839634

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Mapping Vulnerability : Disasters, ...

Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jan 2004

Erscheinungsdatum: 2004

Einband: Buch

Zustand: Neu

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Book by Bankoff Greg Hilhorst Dorothea Frerks George

Críticas:

"Hazards are natural, disasters are not. Social processes generally result in unequal exposure to risk by making some people more disaster-prone than others. This book explores aspects of vulnerability as key to understanding risk and the human response to hazards. Critical to this understanding is an appreciation of how human systems place people at risk in relation to each other and the envronment--a relationship that can be best understood in terms of an individual, household, community, or societal vulnerability. These issues are examined through scholarly and case-study perspectives."--Natural Hazards Observer