TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas,Deborah S.K.
AU  - Fothergill,Alice
AU  - Phillips,Brenda D.
AU  - Blinn-Pike,Lynn
TI  - Social Vulnerability to Disasters
SN  - 9781420078572
AV  - HV553 .S586 2010 
U1  - 363.34/2 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - CRC Press LLC
KW  - Disasters-Social aspects
KW  - Risk assessment
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Front cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Theoretical Framing of Worldviews, Values, and Structural Dimensions of Disasters -- Chapter 3. The Intrinsic Link of Vulnerability to Sustainable Development -- Chapter 4. Class -- Chapter 5. Race and Ethnicity -- Chapter 6. Gender -- Chapter 7. Age -- Chapter 8.  Disability -- Chapter 9. Health -- Chapter 10. Language and Literacy -- Chapter 11. Households and Families -- Chapter 12. Violence and Disaster Vulnerability -- Chapter 13. The Nature of Human Communities -- Chaoter 14. Measuring and Conveying Social Vulnerability -- Chapter 15. New Ideas for Practitioners -- Chapter 16. Promoting Empowerment: Social Change in Disasters -- Biographies of Contributors -- Index -- Back cover
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ER  -