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Understanding Vulnerability - South Asian perspectives (Paperback)
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Understanding Vulnerability - South Asian perspectives (Paperback)
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Loot Price R479
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Each year more than 130 million people are affected by natural
hazards such as floods, earthquakes, droughts, and cyclones. Nearly
all of these disaster victims live in the poorer countries of the
world, where each year more and more people become vulnerable to
hazards because of changes in their social, economic, cultural, and
political environment. In recent years, researchers and development
agencies have begun to investigate why certain groups of people are
more vulnerable to disasters than others. However, relatively
little work has been done on vulnerability in South Asia where more
than half the world's disaster victims live. Understanding
Vulnerability breaks new ground by exploring these issues from a
South Asian standpoint, presented in the form of case studies and
essays by experts from India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Ela Bhatt
writes about poor women in the towns and countryside of the Indian
State of Gujarat who face a wide range of hazards, both natural and
man-made. Ngamindra Dahal studies Nepali villagers who live under
the permanent threat of mountain floods and landslides. R. B.
Senaka Arachchi looks at a village society in Sri Lanka's Dry Zone
which endures drought as a persistent hazard to its agricultural
way of life. The final essay, by Mihir Bhatt, is a
thought-provoking discussion of ways of understanding vulnerability
by learning from vulnerable people: it is a spur to operational
agencies and field workers to improve their ways of working. The
lessons in Understanding Vulnerability will be of value to
development and disaster planners and managers not only in South
Asia but in many other regions where vulnerable people are
confronted by hazards.
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