Margaret Arnold, Maxx Dilley, Uwe Deichmann

Broschiertes Buch

Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis

Beschreibung

This timely series seeks to provide objective information about the new trade agenda and to encourage an informed dialogue about the role of trade in development, particularly for the world's poorest countries.

Autor

Margaret Arnoldis a Senior Social Development Specialist with the World Bank, specializing in the social dimensions of climate change, disaster risk management, and community-based and gender-sensitive approaches to risk management. She leads work on pro-poor adaptation and resilience building for the Social Resilience cluster. Margaret has been with the World Bank since 1995, and has worked on urban development and post-conflict reconstruction in addition to DRM. She was part of a two-person team that established the World Bank's first unit focused on natural disaster risk management in 1998 (the Disaster Management Facility), and is credited with facilitating the Bank's recognition of disaster risk reduction as a development priority. She is one of the founders of the ProVention Consortium and served as Head of its Secretariat from 2007-2009.

Produktdetails

• Disaster Risk Management Nr.5
• Verlag: World Bank Publications
• New
• Seitenzahl: 145
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 279mm x 217mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780821359303
• ISBN-10: 0821359304
• Artikelnr.: 21558044