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Disaster Risk Reduction and the Global System
Ruminations on a Way Forward
Authors: Gordy, Michael
Free Preview- Locates disaster risk reduction within a wider context than the technical parameters that usually shape the discussion
- Written for educated readers who do not necessarily possess the technical background of practitioners in the area of disaster risk reduction
- Articulates principles for practical action based on the analysis
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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 Nations.
The book sums up and interprets issues of disaster risk reduction and makes them accessible to professional and non-professional readers alike, including governmental policy makers.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-4
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Underlying Risk Factors
Pages 5-12
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The Social Construction of Risk
Pages 13-15
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Development and Disaster Risk
Pages 17-20
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The Poverty-DR Nexus
Pages 21-24
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Disaster Risk Reduction and the Global System
- Book Subtitle
- Ruminations on a Way Forward
- Authors
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- Michael Gordy
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-41667-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-41667-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-41666-3
- Series ISSN
- 2213-784X
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- V, 71
- Topics
