Evolving approaches to understanding natural hazards / edited by Graham A. Tobin and Burrell E. Montz.

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TextPublisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015Description: 1 online resource (515 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781443883870
1443883875

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Evolving approaches to understanding natural hazards.DDC classification:

363.346 23

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GB5014 .E86 2015

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Summary: The 21st century presents many challenges to the hazard manager; dynamic climatic conditions combined with population growth, rapid urbanization, and changing socio-economic relationships are reshaping disaster impacts, community responses, and social safety mechanisms. Indeed, human vulnerability is constantly restructured by the ongoing interplay of physical, social, economic, and political forces. At the same time, reducing vulnerability and enhancing community resilience require policies aimed at mitigating the consequences of disasters as they affect different locations and different grou.

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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

The 21st century presents many challenges to the hazard manager; dynamic climatic conditions combined with population growth, rapid urbanization, and changing socio-economic relationships are reshaping disaster impacts, community responses, and social safety mechanisms. Indeed, human vulnerability is constantly restructured by the ongoing interplay of physical, social, economic, and political forces. At the same time, reducing vulnerability and enhancing community resilience require policies aimed at mitigating the consequences of disasters as they affect different locations and different grou.

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