Kenneth Hewitt

Regions of Risk

A Geographical Introduction to Disasters

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Providing a general introduction to the key concepts and existing debates within the field of hazards, human vulnerability and disaster, this text is concerned with more severe or novel disasters. The book draws upon case studies involving natural and technological hazards and social violence.

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Produktdetails

• Themes In Resource Management
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9780582210059
• ISBN-10: 0582210054
• Artikelnr.: 39214786

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Hewitt

Inhaltsangabe

* APPROACHES TO RISK AND DISASTER: Introduction: Danger and
ModernityRisk and Damaging Events
* The Geographicalness of Disaster
* Natural Hazards
* Technological Hazards
* Social Hazards: Violence and the Disasters of War
* Vulnerability Perspectives: The Human Ecology of Endangerment
* Active Perspectives: Responses to Disaster and Adjustments to Risks
* COMMUNITIES AT RISK, PLACES OF DISASTER: 'Unnatural' Disasters: The
Case of Earthquake Hazards
* Contexts of Risk: Mountain Land Hazards and Vulnerabilities
* Risks in the City
* Place Annihilation: Air War and the Vulnerability of Cities
* Holocaust: Genocide and Geographical Calamity Concluding Remarks: the
perspective of ideas