Mapping Vulnerability

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Mapping Vulnerability

Mapping Vulnerability written by Greg Bankoff and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-17 with Business & Economics categories.

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 disasters and mitigating their impacts is the concept of 'vulnerability'. Mapping Vulnerability analyses 'vulnerability' as a concept central to the way we understand disasters and their magnitude and impact. Written and edited by a distinguished group of disaster scholars and practitioners, this book is a counterbalance to those technocratic approaches that limit themselves to simply looking at disasters as natural phenomena. Through the notion of vulnerability, the authors stress the importance of social processes and human-environmental interactions as causal agents in the making of disasters. They critically examine what renders communities 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. Mapping Vulnerability is essential reading for academics, students, policymakers and practitioners in disaster studies, geography, development studies, economics, environmental studies and sociology.

Mapping Vulnerability

Mapping Vulnerability written by Greg Bankoff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Disaster relief categories.

Mapping Vulnerability

Mapping Vulnerability written by Greg Bankoff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Disaster relief categories.

Mapping Climate Change Exposures Vulnerabilities And Adaptation To Public Health Risks In The San Francisco Bay And Fresno Regions

Mapping Climate Change Exposures Vulnerabilities And Adaptation To Public Health Risks In The San Francisco Bay And Fresno Regions written by Michael Jerrett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Climatic changes categories.

Applicability Of Vulnerability Maps

Applicability Of Vulnerability Maps written by Lars Jørgen Andersen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Groundwater categories.

1 1 000 000 National Groundwater Pollution Vulnerability Map Explanatory Notes

1 1 000 000 National Groundwater Pollution Vulnerability Map Explanatory Notes written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Atlases categories.

Natural Hazards Mapping

Natural Hazards Mapping written by Chishitsu Chōsajo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Environmental mapping categories.

Delineation Of Wellhead Protection Areas Using Particle Tracking Analysis And Hydrogeologic Mapping Northern Anne Arundel County Maryland

Delineation Of Wellhead Protection Areas Using Particle Tracking Analysis And Hydrogeologic Mapping Northern Anne Arundel County Maryland written by John M. Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Groundwater categories.

Methods And Tools For Assessing The Vulnerability Of Forests And People To Climate Change

Methods And Tools For Assessing The Vulnerability Of Forests And People To Climate Change written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Climatic changes categories.

Measuring Vulnerability To Natural Hazards

Measuring Vulnerability To Natural Hazards written by Jörn Birkmann and has been published by UN this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Architecture categories.

"Climate change adaptation", "building resilience" and "vulnerability and risk reduction" are noble words, but do we really know what is meant by these terms and how to assess their respective progress? This book seeks to address these questions. The world has recently experienced disasters of a magnitude rarely seen before: the cascading disaster in Japan, the earthquake in Haiti, and floods in Pakistan and Australia are a few prominent examples. These major disasters underline the fact that many communities and world regions are still vulnerable to extreme events and natural hazards. Additionally, creeping changes, such as sea level rise, are emerging pressures in the context of climate change. These changes are very likely to seriously affect livelihoods in many regions. The dynamic and complex interaction between vulnerable communities, and climate- and non-climate-related, sudden-onset and creeping hazards will most likely increase the risk of crises and disasters in the future. Following the popularity of the first edition, this volume has been completely revised and fully updated. This new edition includes the dimension of adaptation to climate change and new risks resulting from climate change. It combines practical examples from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe with theoretical and conceptual frameworks. It is key reading for all those interested in improving risk reduction and adaptation strategies to extreme events and gradual changes in the context of climate change and natural hazards."--Publisher's description.