Disaster Mitigation

Experiences and Reflections
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-81-203-1914-1
Verlag: PHI Learning

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Human vulnerability to natural disasters is an age-old phenomenon. Besides nature’s wrath, human interventions, too, have led to many calamities in the recent past. Most of the world’s people live in ‘developing’ economies, as do most of the world’s poor. They also face the most debilitating consequences in the form of economic and social disruption caused by disasters. Disaster mitigation entails measures to reduce the physical, economic and social vulnerability of a community to disasters. It is still an untouched domain, suffering for want of systematic and committed research and development inputs. This collection of articles from several contributors illuminates the pertinence of those mitigation efforts that would prepare everyone related with disaster management to comprehend and approach the problem more holistically.

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Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Naturgewalten & Katastrophen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren