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Environmental Hazards and Disasters
- Contexts, Perspectives and Management
Engelsk Paperback
Environmental Hazards and Disasters
- Contexts, Perspectives and Management
Engelsk Paperback

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Environmental Hazards and Disasters: Contexts, Perspectives and Management focuses on manifested threats to humans and their welfare as a result of natural disasters. The book uses an integrative approach to address socio–cultural, political and physical components of the disaster process. Human and social vulnerability as well as risk to environmental hazards are explored within the comprehensive context of diverse natural hazards and disasters.
In addition to scientific explanations of disastrous occurrences, people and governments of hazard–prone countries often have their own interpretations for why natural disasters occur. In such interpretations they often either blame others, in order to conceal their inability to protect themselves, or they blame themselves, attributing the events to either real or imagined misdeeds. The book contains a chapter devoted to the neglected topic of such reactions and explanations. Includes  chapters  on  key topics such as the application of GIS in hazard studies; resiliency; disasters and poverty; climate change and sustainability and development.


This book is designed as a primary text for an interdisciplinary course on hazards for upper–level undergraduate and Graduate students. Although not targeted for an introductory hazards course, students in such a course may find it very useful as well. Additionally, emergency managers, planners, and both public and private organizations involved in disaster response, and mitigation could benefit from this book along with hazard researchers. It not only includes traditional and popular hazard topics (e.g., disaster cycles, disaster relief, and risk and vulnerability), it also includes neglected topics, such as the positive impacts of disasters, disaster myths and different accounts of disasters, and disasters and gender.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
334
ISBN-13:
9780470660010
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0470660015
Udg. Dato:
11 nov 2011
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
171mm
Højde:
240mm
Forlag:
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Oplagsdato:
11 nov 2011
Forfatter(e):
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