Regions of risk : a geographical introduction to disasters / Kenneth Hewitt.
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TextSeries: Themes in resource managementPublication details: Harlow : Longman, 1997.Description: xx, 389 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 0582210054
- 0582210054 (pbk) :
- 304.2 21
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 365-382.
Danger and modernity -- Approaches to risk and disaster -- Risk and damaging events -- The 'geographicalness' of disaster -- Natural hazards --Technological hazards -- Social hazards: violence and the disasters of war -- Vulnerability perspectives: the human ecology of endangerment -- Active perspectives: responses to disaster and adjustments to risk -- Communities at risk, places of disaster -- 'Unnatural' disasters: the case of earthquake hazards -- Contexts of risk: mountain land hazards and vulnerabilities -- Risk in the city -- Place annihilation: air war and the vulnerability of cities -- The Holocaust: genocide and geographical calamity -- The perspective of ideas
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