Disaster Risk and Vulnerability: Mitigation Through Mobilizing Communities and Partnerships

by David Etkin and C. Emdad Haque

Book Overview

From the Asian tsunami of 2004 to hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Tohoku earthquake of 2011, our century has been fraught with catastrophic natural disasters. Disaster Risk and Vulnerability assesses the human toll and economic losses of natural disasters and reasserts the importance of human collaboration and organization in disaster management. In most cases, policy makers, planners, managers, and regulators who implement disaster risk reduction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773539921
• ISBN13: 9780773539921
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"