At Risk Natural Hazards Peoples Vulnerability And Disasters 2nd Edition Piers Blaikie by Piers Blaikie, Terry Cannon, Ian Davis, Ben Wisner 9780415252157, 9780203428764, 9781134528608, 9780203439241, 9780415252164, 0415252156, 0203428765, 0203439244, 0415252164 instant download after payment.

The new 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. Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword: The Great Wave; Preface to 2004 edition; Preface to 1994 edition; List of abbreviations and acronyms; Framework and theory; The challenge of disasters and our approach; The Disaster Pressure and Release model; Access to resources and coping in adversity; Vulnerability and hazard types; Famine and natural hazards; Biological hazards; Floods; Coastal storms; Earthquakes and volcanoes; Towards a safer environment; Towards a safer environment; Bibliography; Index