Regions of Risk
A Geographical Introduction to Disasters
1st Edition
Published on 7. February 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
410 pages
978-0-582-21005-9 (ISBN)
Description
An introduction to hazards, human vulnerability and disaster, paying particular attention to the more severe or novel risks and disaster that affect the general public. The book is split into two parts, the first of which gives an overview of the field of risk and disaster in terms of three perspectives: hazards perspective; vulnerability perspective and the active perspective. The second part illustrates and develops these ideas in relation to some of the more severe dangers and disasters of the twentieth century, for example, earthquake risk, cities at risk and the civil disasters of war.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
620 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-582-21005-9 (9780582210059)
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Person
Kenneth Hewitt
Content
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
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