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

Publicação: Essex : Longman, 1997Descrição física: XX, 389 p. : il. ; 24 cmSérie: (Themes in resource management)Notas: 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 naturales Riesgos extraordinarios Recursos naturales Gestión de recursos Accidentes Historia Accidentes mayores Emergencias Gestión de emergencias Riesgos técnicos Terremotos Crímenes Casos prácticos Serie secundária: Themes in resource management Outras classificações: 84Números normalizados: ISBN 0-582-21005-4

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