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This book addresses the long-overdue imbalance in disaster management: an over-emphasis on post-disaster assistance and a lack of attention to vulnerability reduction. It answers the fundamental question in this debate: how can we mould pre-disaster development initiatives to become the most appropriate means for vulnerability reduction?The author examines requirements for long-term change so that conditions that have become the context for catastrophe can be modified. The book 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.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Social welfare & social services

• Full title: Development in Disaster-Prone Places
• Subtitle: Studies of vulnerability
• Author: James Lewis
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9781853394720
• ISBN: 1853394726
• ID: 05112037
• Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
• Weight: 334 g
• Dimensions: 233 × 156 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. December 1999

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