TitleVulnerability and resilience to natural hazards / edited by Sven Fuchs, Thomas Thaler
ImprintCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018
Connect tohttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781316651148
Descript 1 online resource (xvi, 336 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

SUMMARY

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CONTENT

Vulnerability: an introduction -- Physical vulnerability -- Social vulnerability -- Economic vulnerability -- Institutional vulnerability -- Resilience: an introduction -- Physical resilience -- Social resilience -- Economic resilience -- Institutional resilience -- Linkages between vulnerability and resilience -- Synthesis and conclusion


SUBJECT

  1. Hazard mitigation -- Social aspects
  2. Disasters -- Social aspects
  3. Risk -- Social aspects
  4. Hazard mitigation -- Economic aspects