Piers Blaikie, Terry Cannon, Ian Davis

At Risk

Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 492
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 900g
• ISBN-13: 9780415252157
• ISBN-10: 0415252156
• Artikelnr.: 22469377

Autorenporträt

Piers Blaikie, Terry Canon, Ian Davis, Ben Wisner

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Framework and Theory 1. The Challenge of Disasters and Our Approach
2. Disaster Pressure and Release Model 3. Access to Resources and Coping in
Adversity Part 2: Vulnerability and Hazard Types 4. Famine and Natural
Hazards 5. Biological Hazards 6. Floods 7. Severe Coastal Storms 8.
Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Landslides Part 3: Action for Disaster Reduction
9. Vulnerability, Relief and Reconstruction 10. Towards a Safer Environment