At Risk
Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters
The term natural disaster is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes, or floods. However, the phrase 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.This new edition of At Risk confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and deadly disasters since it was first published, and discusses disaster not as an aberration, but as a signal failure of mainstream development. Two analytical models are provided as tools for understanding vulnerabili…
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Weitere Autoren: Cannon, Terry / Davis, Ian / Wisner, Ben
- ISBN: 978-0-415-25216-4
- EAN: 9780415252164
- Produktnummer: 1698545
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 496 S.
- Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.4 cm 828 g
- Auflage: 2 New edition
- Abbildungen: 31 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Tables, black and white
- Gewicht: 828
- Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)
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Piers Blaikie, Terry Canon, Ian Davis, Ben Wisner
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