Mapping vulnerability : (Record no. 53465)
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| fixed length control field | 02273nam a22002417a 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 190918b2004 ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781853839641 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 363.342 BAN-G |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | edited by Bankoff, Greg |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Mapping vulnerability : |
| Remainder of title | disasters, development, and people / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | edited by Greg Bankoff, George Frerks and Dorothea Hilhorst |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Earthscan |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2004 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 236 p. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price type code | GBP |
| Price amount | 31.99. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Raging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million people are affected by these and other disasters, which cause loss of life and damage to personal property, agriculture, and infrastructure. So what can be done? The key to understanding the causes of disasters and mitigating their impacts is the concept of 'vulnerability'. Mapping Vulnerability analyses 'vulnerability' as a concept central to the way we understand disasters and their magnitude and impact. Written and edited by a distinguished group of disaster scholars and practitioners, this book is a counterbalance to those technocratic approaches that limit themselves to simply looking at disasters as natural phenomena. Through the notion of vulnerability, the authors stress the importance of social processes and human-environmental interactions as causal agents in the making of disasters. They critically examine what renders communities unsafe - a condition, they argue, that depends primarily on the relative position of advantage or disadvantage that a particular group occupies within a society's social order. The book also looks at vulnerability in terms of its relationship to development and its impact on policy and people's lives, through consideration of selected case studies drawn from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Mapping Vulnerability is essential reading for academics, students, policymakers and practitioners in disaster studies, geography, development studies, economics, environmental studies and sociology. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Disaster relief |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Human beings--Effect of environment on |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Natural disasters |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Political ecology |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Risk assessment |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Disasters |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Frerks, Georg |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hilhorst, Dorothea |
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| Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | 360 | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | Text & Reference Section (Student cannot borrow these books) | 18/09/2019 | 31.99 | 2 | 363.342 BAN-G | 39183 | 13/07/2024 | 04/03/2021 | 18/09/2019 | Course Text Book | |||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 360 | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | Text & Reference Section (Student cannot borrow these books) | 18/09/2019 | 31.99 | 363.342 BAN-G | 39184 | 13/07/2024 | 18/09/2019 | Course Text Book | |||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 360 | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | Text & Reference Section (Student cannot borrow these books) | 18/09/2019 | 31.99 | 363.342 BAN-G | 39185 | 13/07/2024 | 18/09/2019 | Course Text Book |