Mapping Vulnerability (eBook, ePUB)

Disasters, Development and People
Redaktion: Bankoff, Greg; Hilhorst, Dorothea; Frerks, Georg

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Raging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million people are affected by these and other disasters, which cause loss of life and damage to personal property, agriculture, and infrastructure. So what can be done? The key to understanding the causes of disasters and mitigating their impacts is the concept of 'vulnerability'. Mapping Vulnerability analyses 'vulnerability' as a concept central to the way we understand disasters and their magnitude and impact. Written and edited by a distinguished group of disaster scholars and practitioners, this book is a counterbalance to those technocratic approaches that limit themselves to simply looking at disasters as natural phenomena. Through the notion of vulnerability, the authors stress the importance of social processes and human-environmental interactions as causal agents in the making of disasters. They critically examine what renders communities unsafe - a condition, they argue, that depends primarily on the relative position of advantage or disadvantage that a particular group occupies within a society's social order. The book also looks at vulnerability in terms of its relationship to development and its impact on policy and people's lives, through consideration of selected case studies drawn from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Mapping Vulnerability is essential reading for academics, students, policymakers and practitioners in disaster studies, geography, development studies, economics, environmental studies and sociology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136561610
• Artikelnr.: 38273080

Autorenporträt

Greg Bankoff is associate professor in the School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and research fellow in Disaster Studies, Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Georg Frerks is professor of Disaster Studies, Wageningen University, and chair of Conflict Prevention and Conflict Management at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Dorothea Hilhorst is associate professor in Disaster Studies at Wageningen University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Mapping Vulnerability
Theorizing Vulnerability in a Globalized World: A Political Ecological Perspective
The Historical Geography of Disaster: 'Vulnerability' and 'Local Knowledge' in Western Discourse
The Need for Rethinking the Concepts of Vulnerability and Risk from a Holistic Perspective: A Necessary Review and Criticism for Effective Risk Management
Complexity and Diversity: Unlocking Social Domains of Disaster Response
The Lower Lempa River Valley, El Salvador: Risk Reduction and Development Project
El Ni o Events, Forecasts and Decision-making
Vulnerable Regions versus Vulnerable People: An Ethiopian Case Study
From Vulnerability to Empowerment
Progress in Analysis of Social Vulnerability and Capacity
Vulnerability Reduction: A Task for the Vulnerable People Themselves
Macro-economic Concepts of Vulnerability: Dynamics, Complexity and Public Policy
Gendering Vulnerability Analysis: Towards a More Nuanced Approach
Assessment of Capability and Vulnerability
Conclusion: Vulnerability Analysis as a Means of Strengthening Policy Formulation and Policy Practice
Notes
References
Index