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Social Vulnerability to Disasters.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : CRC Press LLC, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (406 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781420078572
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Social Vulnerability to DisastersDDC classification:
  • 363.34/2
LOC classification:
  • HV553 .S586 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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