Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters, Development and People

by Greg Bankoff

Raging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million people are affected by these and other disasters, which cause loss of life and damage to personal property, agriculture, and infrastructure. So what can be done? The key to understanding the causes of disasters and mitigating their impacts is the concept of 'vulnerability'.

Mapping Vulnerability analyses 'vulnerability' as a concept central to the way...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853839639
• ISBN13: 9781853839634
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.4"