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...
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Author: Ben Wisner
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At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters by Wisner, Ben

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

€146,55

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

€146,55
Author: Ben Wisner
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Ben Wisner, Piers Blaikie, Terry Cannon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/13/2003
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.99d
ISBN: 9780415252164

About the Author
Piers Blaikie, Terry Canon, Ian Davis, Ben Wisner


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