Development in Disaster-Prone Places - Studies of vulnerability (Paperback)

This work addresses the long-overdue imbalance in disaster management: an over-emphasis on post-disaster assistance and a lack of attention to vulnerability reduction. It seeks to answer the fundamental question in this debate: how can we mould pre-disaster development initiatives to become the most appropriate means for vulnerability reduction?;The book reasserts and reapplies some of the basic concepts and issues which emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, with the message that development is a prime medium both of vulnerability and its reduction.;The author examines requirements for long-term change so that conditions which have become the context for catastrophe can be modified. Bu focusing on longer-term policies and activities now, emergency relief efforts will have a positive context within which to contribute to development and the likelihood of recurrence will be reduced.;The volume contains case studies from Sri Lanka, the Caribbean and the South Pacific and focuses on hazards of all kinds, setting out to redress the balance between large-scale disasters of global significance and small-scale disasters that are a matter of everyday existence.

General

Imprint:	Practical Action Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 1999
First published:	December 1999
Authors:	James Lewis
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-85339-472-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social work > Aid & relief programmes Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Social impact of disasters > General
LSN:	1-85339-472-6
Barcode:	9781853394720

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