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Disaster Risk Reduction and the Global System = Ruminations on a Way Forward /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Disaster Risk Reduction and the Global System/ by Michael Gordy.
Reminder of title:	Ruminations on a Way Forward /
Author:	Gordy, Michael.
Description:	V, 71 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Climate change. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41667-0
ISBN:	9783319416670

Disaster Risk Reduction and the Global System = Ruminations on a Way Forward /
Gordy, Michael.

Disaster Risk Reduction and the Global SystemRuminations on a Way Forward /[electronic resource] :by Michael Gordy. - 1st ed. 2016. - V, 71 p.online resource. - SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies,2213-784X. - SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies,.

Introduction -- Underlying Risk Factors -- The Social Construction of Risk -- Development and Risk -- The Poverty-Disaster Risk Nexus -- Global Capitalism and Disaster Risk -- Political Will and Governance -- The Importance of Extensive Risk -- The Invisibility of Risks -- Urbanization and Land Use -- Agribusiness and Food Security -- Environmental Degradation -- Climate Change as a Magnifier and Meta-disaster -- Conclusion. .

This short manuscript is both a distillation of some of the latest work on disaster risk reduction and an interpretation of this distillation from the author's political economic perspective. It is based on information found in the flagship reports on disaster risk reduction of the United Nations. The book sums up and interprets issues of disaster risk reduction and makes them accessible to professional and non-professional readers alike, including governmental policy makers.

ISBN: 9783319416670

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-41667-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1009004
Climate change.

LC Class. No.: QC902.8-903.2

Dewey Class. No.: 577.27

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