Section: BooksTitle: Regions of risk : a geographical introduction to disasters / Kenneth HewittAuthor: Hewitt, KennethPublication: Essex : Longman, 1997Physical description: XX, 389 p. : il. ; 24 cmSeries: (Themes in resource management)Notes: Bibliografía: P. 365-382Sumario: 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 calamityMateria / lugar / evento: Catástrofes naturalesRiesgos extraordinariosRecursos naturalesGestión de recursosAccidentesHistoriaAccidentes mayoresEmergenciasGestión de emergenciasRiesgos técnicosTerremotosCrímenesCasos prácticosSecondary series: Themes in resource managementOther categories: 84Standard numbers: ISBN 0-582-21005-4Rights: In Copyright (InC)Referencias externas: