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The social roots of risk : producing disasters, promoting resilience /

"The first decade of the 21st century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters. Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that catastrophic events can have on developing countries, while 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina showed that first world nations rema...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tierney, Kathleen J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2014.
Colección:High reliability and crisis management.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Risking more, losing more : thinking about risk and resilience
  • Looking back : the evolution of how we talk about risk
  • A different perspective : the social production of risk
  • Culture and the production of risk
  • Organizations, institutions, and the production of risk
  • Communities and societies at risk
  • Defining resilience in relation to risk
  • Adaptive resilience in the face of disasters
  • Looking ahead : a move toward safety, or more of the same?