Title: | At risk : Natural hazards, people's vulnerability and disasters |
Authors: | Ben Wisner ; Piers Blaikie ; Terry Cannon ; Ian Davis |
Material Type: | Books |
Edition statement: | 2nd ed |
Publisher: | London [United Kingdom] : Routledge, 2006 |
Article on page: | XIX, 471 |
ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-415-25215-7 |
Languages: | English |
Class number: | 364.255 |
Tags: | Natural disasters |
Abstract: |
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 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. The book then concludes with strategies to create a safer world. |
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