Regions of Risk: Hazards, Vulnerability and Disaster

ISBN-13: 9780582210059 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 389 str.

Hewitt, Kenneth

Opis

Providing a general introduction to the key concepts and existing debates within the field of hazards, human vulnerability and disaster, this text is concerned with more severe or novel disasters. The book draws upon case studies involving natural and technological hazards and social violence.

Spis treści

• APPROACHES TO RISK AND DISASTER: Introduction: Danger and ModernityRisk and Damaging Events
• The Geographicalness of Disaster
• Natural Hazards
• Technological Hazards
• Social Hazards: Violence and the Disasters of War
• Vulnerability Perspectives: The Human Ecology of Endangerment
• Active Perspectives: Responses to Disaster and Adjustments to Risks
• COMMUNITIES AT RISK, PLACES OF DISASTER: 'Unnatural' Disasters: The Case of Earthquake Hazards
• Contexts of Risk: Mountain Land Hazards and Vulnerabilities
• Risks in the City
• Place Annihilation: Air War and the Vulnerability of Cities
• Holocaust: Genocide and Geographical Calamity Concluding Remarks: the perspective of ideas

O autorze

Kenneth Hewitt