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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Tác giả khác: Fuchs, Sven (Biên tập viên), Thaler, Thomas (Biên tập viên)
Định dạng: Sách
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2018.
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Mục lục:
  • 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.