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Disaster Risk Reduction and the Global System Ruminations on a Way Forward /

This short manuscript is both a distillation of some of the latest work on disaster risk reduction and an interpretation of this distillation from the author's political economic perspective. It is based on information found in the flagship reports on disaster risk reduction of the United Natio...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Gordy, Michael (Auteur)
Collectivité auteur: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Édition:1st ed. 2016.
Collection:SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies,
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Accès en ligne:Texto Completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • Underlying Risk Factors
  • The Social Construction of Risk
  • Development and Risk
  • The Poverty-Disaster Risk Nexus
  • Global Capitalism and Disaster Risk
  • Political Will and Governance
  • The Importance of Extensive Risk
  • The Invisibility of Risks
  • Urbanization and Land Use
  • Agribusiness and Food Security
  • Environmental Degradation
  • Climate Change as a Magnifier and Meta-disaster
  • Conclusion. .