Vulnerability and resilience to natural hazards /
"In recent years there has been growing recognition that disaster risk cannot be reduced by focusing solely on physical hazards without considering factors that influence socio-economic impact. Vulnerability: the susceptibility to the damaging impacts of hazards, and resilience: the ability to...
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| Natura: | Libro |
| Lingua: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
c2018.
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Sommario:
- Vulnerability: an introduction
- Physical vulnerability
- Social vulnerability
- Economic vulnerability
- Institutional vulnerability
- Resilience: an introduction
- Physical resilience
- Social resilience
- Economic resilience
- Institutional resilience
- Linkages between vulnerability and resilience
- Synthesis and conclusion.