Hazards, Risks and Disasters in Society - Rilegato

 
9780123964519: Hazards, Risks and Disasters in Society
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ISBN 10: 0123964512 ISBN 13: 9780123964519
Casa editrice: Academic Pr, 2014

Sinossi

Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society provides analyses of environmentally related catastrophes within society in historical, political and economic contexts. Personal and corporate culture mediates how people may become more vulnerable or resilient to hazard exposure. Societies that strengthen themselves, or are strengthened, mitigate decline and resultant further exposure to what are largely human induced risks of environmental, social and economic degradation. This book outlines why it is important to explore in more depth the relationships between environmental hazards, risk and disasters in society. It presents challenges presented by mainstream and non-mainstream approaches to the human side of disaster studies.

By hazard categories this book includes critical processes and outcomes that significantly disrupt human wellbeing over brief or long time-frames. Whilst hazards, risks and disasters impact society, individuals, groups, institutions and organisations offset the effects by becoming strong, healthy, resilient, caring and creative. Innovations can arise from social organisation in times of crisis. This volume includes much of use to practitioners and policy makers needing to address both prevention and response activities. Notably, as people better engage prevalent hazards and risks they exercise a process that has become known as disaster risk reduction (DRR). In a context of climatic risks this is also indicative of climate change adaptation (CCA). Ultimately it represents the quest for development of sustainable environmental and societal futures. Throughout the book cases studies are derived from the world of hazards risks and disasters in society.

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Editore
Academic Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2014
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0123964512
ISBN 13 
9780123964519
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
405
Redattore
Collins Andrew E., Samantha Jones, Manyena Bernard, Jayawickrama Janaka, Shroder John F.
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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ISBN 10:  0128101547 ISBN 13:  9780128101544
Casa editrice: Academic Pr, 2017
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