MAPPING VULNERABILITY
Description
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 disasteand mitigating their impacts is the concept of 'vulnerability'. Mapping Vulnerability analyses 'vulnerability' as a concept central to the way we understand disasteand their magnitude and impact. Written and edited by a distinguished group of disaster scholaand practitioners, this book is a counterbalance to those technocratic approaches that limit themselves to simply looking at disasteas natural phenomena.
Through the notion of vulnerability, the authostress the importance of social processes and human–environmental interactions as causal agents in the making of disasters. They critically examine what rendecommunities 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.
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Book Details
- ISBN: 1853839639
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- Format: Hardback
- Publication Date: 2006
- Number of Pages: 236
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- Publisher: VIVA BOOKS
- Language: English
- Weight: 0.59 g
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