Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Regions of risk : a geographical introduction to disasters

MAP20070028107

Regions of risk : a geographical introduction to disasters / Kenneth Hewitt. — Essex : Longman, 1997

XX, 389 p. : il. ; 24 cm . — (Themes in resource management)

Bibliografía: P. 365-382. — Sumario: 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 -- "Unnatural" disasters: the case of earthquake hazards -- Context 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

ISBN 0-582-21005-4

1. Catástrofes naturales . 2. Riesgos extraordinarios . 3. Recursos naturales . 4. Gestión de recursos . 5. Accidentes . 6. Historia . 7. Accidentes mayores . 8. Emergencias . 9. Gestión de emergencias . 10. Riesgos técnicos . 11. Terremotos . 12. Crímenes . 13. Casos prácticos . I. Themes in resource management . II. Title.

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FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE. Centro de Documentación — Signature: 84-HEW-REG — Record number: 023430

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