Disaster Risk and Vulnerability (häftad)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
320
Utgivningsdatum
2012-04-11
Förlag
McGill-Queen's University Press
Illustrationer
illustrations
Dimensioner
231 x 155 x 25 mm
Vikt
568 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780773539631

Disaster Risk and Vulnerability

Mitigation through Mobilizing Communities and Partnerships

av C Emdad Haque, David Etkin
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2012-04-11
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From the Asian tsunami of 2004 to hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Tohoku earthquake of 2011, our century has been fraught with catastrophic natural disasters. Disaster Risk and Vulnerability assesses the human toll and economic losses of natural disasters and reasserts the importance of human collaboration and organization in disaster management. In most cases, policy makers, planners, managers, and regulators who implement disaster risk reduction response planning and management strategies remain detached from local conditions, failing to address them effectively. Presenting case studies from Asia and North America, as well as a broad range of approaches to community mobilization and partnership development, contributors show that local communities, all levels of government, and non-governmental organizations must work collectively in order to reduce the harm caused by disasters. Despite unprecedented progress in science and technology and governments' continued efforts in disaster risk reduction, socioeconomic losses due to environmental disasters continue to rise. Disaster Risk and Vulnerability provides knowledge and information that will benefit anyone working in the fields of environment, disasters, and community mobilization in an effort to reverse this trend.
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C. Emdad Haque is professor at the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Manitoba. David Etkin is assistant professor and coordinator of the Program in Emergency Management at York University.

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