Disaster risk reduction and the global system : ruminations on a way forward / Michael Gordy.
Series: Springer Briefs in climate studiesPublisher: Switzerland : Springer, [2016]Copyright date: 2016Description: v, 71 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 3319416669
- 9783319416663
- HV551.2 .G67 2016
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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BOOK | NCAR Library Foothills Lab | HV551.2 .G67 2016 | 1 | Available | 50583020006502 |
Includes bibliographical references.
Underlying risk factors -- The social construction of risk -- Development and disaster risk -- The poverty-DR nexus -- Global capitalism and disaster risk -- Political will and governance -- The importance of extensive risk -- The invisibility of disaster risks -- Urbanization and land use -- Agribusiness and food security -- Environmental degradation -- Climate change as a magnifier and meta-disaster.