Social Vulnerability to Disasters

by Alice Fothergill, Deborah S.K. Thomas, Brenda D. Phillips, et al.

Book Overview

The 2010 Haiti and Chili earthquakes, the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the 2011 Fukushima earthquake and tsunami in Japan are but a few examples of recent catastrophic events that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1420078569
• ISBN13: 9781420078565
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.2" x 10.0"