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...
| Main Author: | Gordy, Michael, |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Switzerland :
Springer,
2016.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (v, 71 pages). |
| Series: |
SpringerBriefs in climate studies.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.