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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press,
2014.
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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?