Measuring Vulnerability To Natural Hazards
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Measuring Vulnerability to Natural Hazards
Author: Birkmann
language: en
Publisher: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Release Date: 2007-01-01
Measuring Vulnerability to Natural Hazards presents a broad range of current approaches to measuring vulnerability. It provides a comprehensive overview of different concepts at the global, regional, national, and local levels, and explores various schools of thought. More than 40 distinguished academics and practitioners analyse quantitative and qualitative approaches, and examine their strengths and limitations. This book contains concrete experiences and examples from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe to illustrate the theoretical analyses.The authors provide answers to some of the key questions on how to measure vulnerability and they draw attention to issues with insufficient coverage, such as the environmental and institutional dimensions of vulnerability and methods to combine different methodologies.This book is a unique compilation of state-of-the-art vulnerability assessment and is essential reading for academics, students, policy makers, practitioners, and anybody else interested in understanding the fundamentals of measuring vulnerability. It is a critical review that provides important conclusions which can serve as an orientation for future research towards more disaster resilient communities.
Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Hazards
Author: Sven Fuchs
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2018-03-22
A comprehensive overview of the concepts of vulnerability and resilience for natural hazards research for both physical and social scientists.
At Risk
The second edition of At Risk confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and deadly disasters since it was first published, and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed.