Regions of risk : a geographical introduction to disasters

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<subTitle>: a geographical introduction to disasters</subTitle>
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<abstract displayLabel="Summary">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</abstract>
<note type="statement of responsibility">Kenneth Hewitt</note>
<note type="bibliography">Bibliografía: P. 365-382</note>
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