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The Routledge handbook of hazards and disaster risk reduction
Publisher
Routledge
Publication Date
2012
Language
English
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Challenging risk : We offer the reader a left-foot book / The editors
Framing disaster : Theories and stories seeking to understand hazards, vulnerability and risk / Ben Wisner, JC Gaillard and Ilan Kelman
Historical concepts of disasters and risk / Greg Bankoff
Politics : Power and disasters / Adolfo Mascarenhas and Ben Wisner
Human rights and disaster / Jean Connolly Carmalt and Claudine Haenni Dale
Violent conflict, natural hazards and disaster / Ben Wisner
Culture, hazard and disaster / Kenneth Hewitt
Knowledge and disaster risk reduction / Jessica Mercer
Religious interpretations of disaster / David Chester, Angus M. Duncan and Heather Sangster
Hazards and disasters represented in film / Gregory Berger and Ben Wisner
Hazards and disasters represented in music / Bob Alexander
Hazards, risk and urbanisation / Mark Pelling
Disaster risk and sustainable development / Christopher M. Bacon
Data sources on hazards / Julio Serje
Tools for identifying hazards / Keiko Saito, Jane Strachan, Timoty Fewtrell...[et. al.]
Hazard, risk and climate change / David Simon
Coastal storm / Sebastian N. Jonkman, Herman Gerritsen and Marcel Marchand
Thunderstorm and tornado / David Etkin, Kaz Higuchi and George Platsis
Flood / Hanna Schmuck
Drought / Thomas A. Smucker
Extreme heat and cold / Sabrina McCormick
Wildfire / Roger Underwood and Alexander Held
Landslide and other mass movements / Danang Sri Hadmoko and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
Earthquake / Cinna Lomnitz and Ben Wisner
Tsunami / Brian G. McAdoo
Volcanic eruption / Susana Jenkins and Katharine Haynes
Soil erosion and contamination / Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
Human epidemic / Chris Dibben
Livestock epidemic / Delia Grace and John McDermott
Plant disease, pests and erosion of biodiversity / Pascal O Girot
Hazards from space / Bill McGuire
Disability and disaster / David Alexander, JC Gaillard and Ben Wisner
Gender, sexuality and disaster / Maureen Fordham
Children, youth and disaster / Agnes A. Babugura
Elderly people and disaster / Ehren B. Ngo
Caster, ethnicity, religious affiliation and disaster / JC Gaillard
Early warning principles and systems / Juan Carlos Villagrán de León
Preparedness, warning and evacuation / Philip Buckle
Emergency management principles / Alejandro López-Carresi
From damage and needs assessments to relief / Claude de Ville de Goyet
Health and disaster / Mark Keim and Jonathan Abrahams
Food security and disaster / Ian Christoplos
Settlement and shelter reconstruction / Many Gupta
Psycho-social recovery / Tammam Aloudat and Lene Christensen
Socio-economic recovery / Rohit Jigyasu
International planning systems for disaster / Margaret Arnold
National planning and disaster / Allan Lavell, JC Gaillard, Ben Wisner...[et. al.]
Local government and disaster / Geoff O'Brien, Mihir Bhatt, Wendy Saunders...[et. al.]
Urban regional planning and disaster / Cassidy Johnson
Financial mechanisms for disaster risk / Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer
Economic development policy and disaster risk / Charlotte Benson
Protection of infrastructure / Ana Maria Cruz
Social protection and disaster / Walter Gillis Peacock and Carla Prater
Livelihood protection and support for disaster / David Sanderson
Community action and disaster / Zenaida Delica-Willison and JC Gaillard
Civil society and disaster / Martha Thompson
University research's role in reducing disaster risk / Dorothea Hilhorst and Annelies Heijmans
Education and disaster / Emmanuel M. Luna
Media, communication and disasters / Tim Radford and Ben Wisner
Participatory action research and disaster risk / Michael K. McCall and Graciela Peters-Guarin
Challenging risk-has the left foot stepped forward? / The editors.
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