Vulnerability and resilience to natural hazards / edited by Sven Fuchs ; Thomas Thaler.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018. ©2018.Description: xvi, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmISBN:- 9781107154896 (hardback)
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363.345 SIN Handbook of disaster management : | 363.345 SIN Natural Hazards and Disaster Management / | 363.34526 VER Disaster Management : | 363.346 FUN Vulnerability and resilience to natural hazards / | 363.346 KRU Cultures and disasters : | 363.346 KRU Cultures and disasters : | 363.347 PIN Hazards analysis : |
Vulnerability: an introduction -- Physical vulnerability -- Social vulnerability -- Economic vulnerability -- Institutional vulnerability -- Resilience: an introduction -- Physical resilience -- Social resilience -- Economic resilience -- Institutional resilience -- Linkages between vulnerability and resilience -- Synthesis and conclusion.
"In recent years there has been growing recognition that disaster risk cannot be reduced by focusing solely on physical hazards without considering factors that influence socio-economic impact. Vulnerability: the susceptibility to the damaging impacts of hazards, and resilience: the ability to recover, have become popular concepts in natural hazard and risk management. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the concepts of vulnerability and resilience and their application to natural hazards research. With contributions from both physical and social scientists it provides an interdisciplinary discussion of the different types of vulnerability and resilience, the links between them, and concludes with the remaining challenges and future directions of the field. Examining global case studies from the US coast to Austria, this is a valuable reference for researchers and graduate students working in natural hazard and risk reduction from both the natural and social sciences"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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