| At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters Subjects: Global Development; Environment and Sustainability; Geography; Global Development; Environmental Studies; Hazards & Disasters; Human Geography; Environmental Geography; Development Geography; The term 'natural disaster' is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase 'natural disaster' suggests an uncritical acceptance of a deeply engrained ideological and cultural myth. At Risk questions this myth and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed. The updated new edition confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and deadly disasters and discusses disaster not as an aberration, but as a signal failure of mainstream 'development'. Two analytical models are provided as tools for understanding vulnerability. One links remote and distant 'root causes' to 'unsafe conditions' in a 'progression of vulnerability'. The other uses the concepts of 'access' and 'livelihood' to understand why some households are more vulnerable than others. Examining key natural events andnbsp;incorporating strategies to create a safer world, this revised edition is an important resource for those involved in the fields of environment and development studies. Piers Blaikie, Terry Canon, Ian Davis, Ben Wisner |