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At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters

Autor Piers Blaikie, Terry Cannon, Ian Davis, Ben Wisner
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 noi 2003
The term 'natural disaster' is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase 'natural disaster' suggests an uncritical acceptance of a deeply engrained ideological and cultural myth. At Risk questions this myth and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed.
The updated new edition confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and deadly disasters 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.
Examining key natural events and incorporating strategies to create a safer world, this revised edition is an important resource for those involved in the fields of environment and development studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415252164
ISBN-10: 0415252164
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: 7 black & white tables, 31 black & white line drawings
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.84 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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

Notă biografică

Piers Blaikie, Terry Canon, Ian Davis, Ben Wisner

Descriere

The second edition of At Risk confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and deadly disasters since it was first published, and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed.