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Natural Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability

Floods and Slum Life in Indonesia

Natural Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability( )
Author: van Voorst, Roanne
Series title:Routledge Humanitarian Studies
ISBN:978-0-8153-5501-4
Publication Date:Dec 2017
Publisher:Routledge
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $62.95
Book Description:

This book offers new and long awaited insights on how the poorest and most vulnerable people in urban societies, cope with an increasingly risky environment. It questions dominant ideas of experts about what it means to act rationally and safely in a context of risk. Through powerful case studies, as well as an incisive theoretical point of view, the book gives policymakers and scholars of risk and disaster a categorization that helps to come to grips with heterogeneous...
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Book Details
Pages:178
Detailed Subjects: Technology & Engineering / Emergency Management
Social Science / Disasters & Disaster Relief
Social Science / Sociology / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.125 x 9.188 Inches
Book Weight:0.594 Pounds



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