Irasema Alcantara-Ayala (UNAM Ciudad Univers Instituto de Gegrafia, Christopher Gomez (NZ University of Canterbury), Ksenia Chmutina (UK. Loughborough University)

Disaster Risk

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The text offers a comprehensive and unique perspective on disaster risk associated with natural hazards. It covers a wide range of topics, reflecting the most recent debates but also older and pioneering discussions in the academic field of disaster studies as well as in the policy and practical areas of disaster risk reduction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 606
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 175mm x 246mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1356g
• ISBN-13: 9781138204348
• ISBN-10: 113820434X
• Artikelnr.: 59986868

Autorenporträt

Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, Christopher Gomez, Ksenia Chmutina, Dewald van Niekerk, Emmanuel Raju, Victor Marchezini, Jake Rom Cadag, J.C. Gaillard

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The nature and impact of disasters. 1.What's disaster risk? 2.Where
and when do disasters occur? 3.The impact of disasters. Part II:
Vulnerabilities and capacities. 4.Why do disasters occur? 5.People's
vulnerability. 6.People's capacities. Part III: Natural and socio-natural
hazards. 7.Endogenous processes: Earthquake, Volcanoes and Tsunamis.
8.Gravity-Driven 'Natural' Exogenous Processes. 9.Climatological and
hydro-meteorological hazards. 10.Socio-natural hazards. Part IV: People's
response to and resilience during and after disasters. 11.People's
behaviour in time of disaster. 12.People's resilience. 13.Moving Towards
Disaster Recovery. Part V: Disaster risk reduction and management.
14.Disaster risk reduction. 15.Disaster management. 16.Fostering disaster
recovery. 17.Conclusions