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MAP20070010294

Population and disaster / edited by John I. Clarke... [et al.]. — Oxford ; Massachusetts : Basil Blackwell : International Geographical Union Commission on Population Geography, 1989

X, 292 p. ; 24 cm . — (The Institute of British Geographers special publications series ; 22)

Sumario: The impact of natural disasters on the population of Japan -- The consequences of the 1972 earthquake on the urban structure and population distribution of Managua -- Friuli: ten years after the earthquake of 6 May 1976 -- The impact of the disaster in Mexico City, September 1985 -- Population displacement due to riverbank erosion of the Jamuna in Bangladesh -- The hazard potential of drought for the population of the Sahel -- The 1984 drought and settler migration in Ethiopia -- The indirect effects of famine on population: case estudies from the Republic of the Sudan -- China: the demographic disaster of 1958-1961 -- Paradise delayed: epidemics of infectious disease in the industrialized world -- Disasters and diseases as they affect the growth and distribution of the population of Uganda -- The disaster life cycle and human adjustments: lessons from three Mile Island and Chernobyl -- The bhopal disaster -- Wars-mortality-poverty -- Was the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. a demographic disaster? -- Population, war and politics: a case study of the Gaza strip -- The disaster of Apartheid forced removals -- A simulation study of population and social distubance in Japan

ISBN 0-631-16682-3

1. Catástrofes naturales . 2. Valoración de daños . 3. Accidentes mayores . 4. Riesgos extraordinarios . 5. Demografía . 6. Terremotos . 7. Riesgo atómico . 8. Chernobyl . 9. Casos prácticos . I. Clarke, John I. . II. International Geographical Union Commission on Population Geography . III. The Institute of British Geographers special publications series ; 22 . IV. Título.

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