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Disaster risk reduction and the global system : ruminations on a way forward / Michael Gordy.

By: Series: Springer Briefs in climate studiesPublisher: Switzerland : Springer, [2016]Copyright date: 2016Description: v, 71 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 3319416669
  • 9783319416663
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV551.2 .G67 2016
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab HV551.2 .G67 2016 1 Available 50583020006502
Total holds: 0

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.

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