Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Hazards

Herausgeber: Fuchs, Sven; Thaler, Thomas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive overview of the concepts of vulnerability and resilience for natural hazards research for both physical and social scientists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 819g
• ISBN-13: 9781107154896
• ISBN-10: 1107154898
• Artikelnr.: 49140053

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Sven Fuchs and Thomas Thaler
2. Vulnerability: an introduction Alexander Fekete and Burrell Montz
3. Physical vulnerability Sven Fuchs, Tim Frazier and Laura Siebeneck
4. Social vulnerability Christopher Burton, Samuel Rufat and Eric Tate
5. Economic vulnerability Thomas Thaler and Brenden Jongman
6. Institutional vulnerability Maria Papathoma-Köhle and Thomas Thaler
7. Resilience: an introduction Christopher T. Emrich and Graham A. Tobin
8. Physical resilience Anna Bozza, Domenico Asprone and Gaetano Manfredi
9. Social resilience Gérard Hutter and Daniel F. Lorenz
10. Economic resilience Carlos Dionisio Pérez Blanco, David Adamson and Adam Loch
11. Institutional resilience Samuel D. Brody and Kayode Atoba
12. Linkages between vulnerability and resilience Susan Cutter
13. Synthesis and conclusion Sven Fuchs and Thomas Thaler.