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The Vulnerability of Cities : Natural Disasters and Social Resilience.

When disaster strikes in cities the effects can be catastrophic compared to other environments. But what factors actually determine the vulnerability or resilience of cities? The Vulnerability of Cities fills a vital gap in disaster studies by examining the too-often overlooked impact of disasters o...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pelling, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Front Cover; The Vulnerability of Cities; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Section I: Cities and Environmental Risk; 1. Tracing the Roots of Urban Risk and Vulnerability; Introduction; Sustainable Development, Disaster and the City; Environmental Hazard and the City; Outline of the book; 2. Cities as Sites of Disaster; Introduction; Urban Growth and Disaster Exposure; Disaster Impacts; Summary; 3. Social Vulnerability in the City; Introduction; A History of Human Vulnerability and Environmental Hazard; Livelihoods and Vulnerability. 
505 8 |a Social Adaptation and Ameliorating VulnerabilityCase Studies of Livelihood and Vulnerability in Georgetown, Guyana; Summary; 4. Urban Governance and Disaster; Introduction; Political Actors; Summary; Section II: The Case Studies; Case Study Selection; 5. Maintaining Civil Society in a Liberal Democracy: Bridgetown, Barbados; Introduction; Democracy from Above: The Barbadian Path to Development; Social Vulnerability Amid Economic Development; Environmental Hazard; Disaster Mitigation and Response Capacity; The Pine Community; Summary. 
505 8 |a 6. Post-socialism and Barriers to Building a Civil Society: Georgetown, GuyanaIntroduction; A Legacy of Mistrust: Guyana's Development History; Urban Poverty and Hazard; Urban Development and Governance; Disaster Mitigation and Response Capacity; Albouystown; Summary; 7. Patrimonial Regimes and the Maintenance of a Constructive Civil Society: Santo Domingo, The Dominican Republic; Introduction; Authoritarian Rule in the Dominican Republic; Environmental Hazard; Urban Governance and Adaptive Potential; Disaster Management Capacity; Los Manguitos; Summary; Section III: Towards Safer Cities. 
505 8 |a 8. Action for Safer CitiesThe Social Roots of Urban Vulnerability and Resilience; Urbanization, Environmental Change and Hazard; A Structural View: Institutional Frameworks and Adaptive Potential; Citizen Agency and Adaptive Potential; Opportunities and Barriers to Building Adaptive Potential; Urban Environmental Risk: A New Research Agenda for Policy Reform; Appendix; References; Index. 
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