Hazards, Risks and Disasters in Society

Hazards, Risks and Disasters in Society provides analyses of environmentally related catastrophes within society as dependent on historical, political and economic contexts. Personal and corporate culture mediates how people may become more vulnerable or resilient to hazard exposure. Societies that strengthen themselves, or are strengthened, mitigate decline and resultant further exposure to what are largely human induced cycles of environmental, social and economic degradation. By hazard categories we therefore include critical processes and outcomes that significantly disrupt human wellbeing over brief or long time-frames. Whilst hazards, risks and disasters impact society, individuals, groups, institutions and organisations offset the effects by becoming strong, healthy, resilient, caring and creative. Innovations can arise from social organisation in times of crisis. This volume therefore includes much of use to practitioners and policy makers. Notably, as people better engage prevalent hazards and risks they exercise a process that has become known as disaster risk reduction (DRR). In a context of climatic risks this is also indicative of climate change adaptation (CCA), though ultimately it represents the quest for development of sustainable environmental and societal futures. Throughout the book cases studies are presented of hazards risks and disasters in society. . Includes sections on prevention of and response to hazards, risks and disasters. Provides case studies of prominent societal engagement with hazards, risk and disasters. Discussions of dealing with disaster drawing from multiple disciplines and sectors INDICE: Section 1: Prevention and response to natural hazards Section 2: Hazards of technological, social and economic change Section 3: Cross-disciplinary dealing with disaster

• ISBN: 978-0-12-396451-9
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 27/10/2014
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés