Regions of Risk: A Geographical Introduction to Disasters
Kenneth Hewitt
An introduction to hazards, human vulnerability and disaster, paying particular attention to the more severe or novel risks and disaster that affect the general public. The book is split into two parts, the first of which gives an overview of the field of risk and disaster in terms of three perspectives: hazards perspective; vulnerability perspective and the active perspective. The second part illustrates and develops these ideas in relation to some of the more severe dangers and disasters of the twentieth century, for example, earthquake risk, cities at risk and the civil disasters of war.
Year:
1997
Edition:
1
Publisher:
Routledge
Language:
english
Pages:
389
ISBN 10:
0582210054
ISBN 13:
9780582210059
Series:
Themes In Resource Management
File:
PDF, 15.42 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1997