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Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society Hardcover - 2014
by John F. Shroder (Editor in Chief); Andrew E. Collins (Editor); Jones Samantha (Editor)
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- Title Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society
- Author John F. Shroder (Editor in Chief); Andrew E. Collins (Editor); Jones Samantha (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Us Edition
- Pages 424
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Academic Press
- Date 2014
- ISBN 9780123964519 / 0123964512
- Weight 1.67 lbs (0.76 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.2 x 1 in (22.86 x 15.75 x 2.54 cm)
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- Aspects (Academic): Sociological
- Dewey Decimal Code 363.3
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Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society
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Hardback. New. Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society provides analyses of environmentally related catastrophes within society in 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 risks of environmental, social and economic degradation. This book outlines why it is important to explore in more depth the relationships between environmental hazards, risk and disasters in society. It presents challenges presented by mainstream and non-mainstream approaches to the human side of disaster studies. By hazard categories this book includes 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…
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