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Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction (Hardcover)
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Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction (Hardcover)
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The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point
for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an
international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical
reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future
development of conceptual, theoretical and practical approaches as
well as empirical knowledge and available tools. Organised into
five inter-related sections, this Handbook contains sixty-five
contributions from leading scholars. Section One situates hazards
and disasters in their broad political, cultural, economic, and
environmental context. Section Two contains treatments of
potentially damaging natural events/phenomena organized by major
earth system. Section Three critically reviews progress in
responding to disasters including warning, relief and recovery.
Section Four addresses mitigation of potential loss and prevention
of disasters under two sub-headings: governance, advocacy and
self-help, and communication and participation. Section Five ends
with a concluding chapter by the editors. The engaging
international contributions reflect upon the politics and policy of
how we think about and practice applied hazard research and
disaster risk reduction. This Handbook provides a wealth of
interdisciplinary information and will appeal to students and
practitioners interested in Geography, Environment Studies and
Development Studies.
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