Disasters, development, and environment.

Includes bibliographies and index

The exceptional and the everyday: vulnerability analysis in the international decade for natural disaster reduction -- Vulnerability analysis and the explanation of 'natural' disasters -- Peru's five hundred year earthquake : vulnerability in historical context -- Prevention and mitigation of disasters in Central America : vulnerability to disasters at the local level -- Vulnerability and responses to riverine hazards in Bangladesh : a critique of flood control and mitigation approaches -- Socio-economic impacts of floods and flood protection : a Bangladesh case study -- Political responses to flood disaster : the example of Rio de Janerio -- Disaster mitigation as a crisis of paradigms : reconstructing after the Alto Mayo earthquake, Peru -- Environmental education in Ethiopia : a strategy to reduce vulnerability to famine -- AIDS as a long wave disaster