At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0415084768
ISBN 13
9780415084765
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
1994
Publisher
Routledge, United Kingdom
Pages
304
Description
At Risk reasserts the significance of the human factor in disasters. Establishing that the social, political and economic environment is as much a cause of disasters as the natural environment, the book argues that disaster mitigation is rooted in the potential humans have to understand their vulnerability and to take common action.Famines and drought, biological hazards, floods, coastal storms, earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides: At Risk draws practical and policy conclusions with a view to disaster reduction and the promotion of a safer environment. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
2
