At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability, and DisastersAt Risk reasserts the significance of the human factor in disasters. Establishing that the social, political and economic environment is as much a cause of disasters as the natural environment, the book argues that disaster mitigation is rooted in the potential humans have to understand their vulnerability and to take common action. Famines and drought, biological hazards, floods, coastal storms, earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides: At Risk draws practical and policy conclusions with a view to disaster reduction and the promotion of a safer environment. |
Contents
THE CHALLENGE OF DISASTERS AND | 3 |
DISASTER PRESSURE AND RELEASE MODEL | 21 |
55 | 75 |
BIOLOGICAL HAZARDS | 101 |
FLOODS | 124 |
SEVERE COASTAL STORMS | 147 |
EARTHQUAKES VOLCANOES AND LANDSLIDES | 168 |
Action for disaster reduction | 193 |
Release from the pressure | 219 |
Living with hazards | 222 |
Integrate the elements of mitigation | 224 |
Monitor and modify to suit new conditions | 225 |
Focus attention on protection of the most vulnerable | 228 |
Focus on the protection of lives and livelihoods of the vulnerable | 229 |
Focus on protecting priority sectors | 230 |
Assimilate mitigation into normal practices | 231 |
Recognize disasters as political events | 209 |
Balance reform and conservation | 210 |
82 | 211 |
Maximize the transition from relief to development | 212 |
discussion of principles | 213 |
Learning from local people | 214 |
Conclusion | 215 |
Notes | 216 |
TOWARDS A SAFER ENVIRONMENT | 218 |
Incorporate mitigation into specific development projects | 232 |
Disaster prevention and mitigation | 233 |
tapping the energy of citizenactivists for disaster mitigation | 236 |
Notes | 239 |
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At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability, and Disasters Piers M. Blaikie No preview available - 1994 |
At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability, and Disasters Piers M. Blaikie No preview available - 1994 |
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