Author: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Publisher: Kumarian Press
ISBN: 9789291390823
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This edition of the World Disasters Report argues that risk reduction is an essential condition for sustainable development. It examines preparedness and mitigation initiatives from disaster-prone countries across the globe. It discusses who should take responsibility for protecting vulnerable populations from disaster, and how.
World Disasters Report 2002
Author: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Publisher: Kumarian Press
ISBN: 9789291390823
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This edition of the World Disasters Report argues that risk reduction is an essential condition for sustainable development. It examines preparedness and mitigation initiatives from disaster-prone countries across the globe. It discusses who should take responsibility for protecting vulnerable populations from disaster, and how.
Publisher: Kumarian Press
ISBN: 9789291390823
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This edition of the World Disasters Report argues that risk reduction is an essential condition for sustainable development. It examines preparedness and mitigation initiatives from disaster-prone countries across the globe. It discusses who should take responsibility for protecting vulnerable populations from disaster, and how.
WORLD DISASTERS REPORT 2001 - 2002
Author: INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT SOCIETIES AUTOR
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789291390755
Category : Natural disasters
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789291390755
Category : Natural disasters
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
World Disasters Report
World Disasters Report
Author:
Publisher: Red Cross Red Crescent
ISBN: 9291391425
Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher: Red Cross Red Crescent
ISBN: 9291391425
Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
World Disasters Report 1997
Author: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198292906
Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Backed by the resources of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the world's most experienced and extensive humanitarian network, the World Disasters Report 1997 promotes best practice, analyzes recent crisis response efforts from China to Iraq, Somalia, and the Caribbean, and offers a comprehensive disasters database. It provides practical information for those working in the field or on disaster response policy, and makes a major contribution to a more professional response to disasters worldwide.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198292906
Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Backed by the resources of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the world's most experienced and extensive humanitarian network, the World Disasters Report 1997 promotes best practice, analyzes recent crisis response efforts from China to Iraq, Somalia, and the Caribbean, and offers a comprehensive disasters database. It provides practical information for those working in the field or on disaster response policy, and makes a major contribution to a more professional response to disasters worldwide.
At Risk
Author: Piers Blaikie
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134528612
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The term 'natural disaster' is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase 'natural disaster' suggests an uncritical acceptance of a deeply engrained ideological and cultural myth. At Risk questions this myth and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed. The updated new edition confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and deadly disasters and discusses disaster not as an aberration, but as a signal failure of mainstream 'development'. Two analytical models are provided as tools for understanding vulnerability. One links remote and distant 'root causes' to 'unsafe conditions' in a 'progression of vulnerability'. The other uses the concepts of 'access' and 'livelihood' to understand why some households are more vulnerable than others. Examining key natural events and incorporating strategies to create a safer world, this revised edition is an important resource for those involved in the fields of environment and development studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134528612
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The term 'natural disaster' is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase 'natural disaster' suggests an uncritical acceptance of a deeply engrained ideological and cultural myth. At Risk questions this myth and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed. The updated new edition confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and deadly disasters and discusses disaster not as an aberration, but as a signal failure of mainstream 'development'. Two analytical models are provided as tools for understanding vulnerability. One links remote and distant 'root causes' to 'unsafe conditions' in a 'progression of vulnerability'. The other uses the concepts of 'access' and 'livelihood' to understand why some households are more vulnerable than others. Examining key natural events and incorporating strategies to create a safer world, this revised edition is an important resource for those involved in the fields of environment and development studies.
Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries
Author: Dean T. Jamison
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821361805
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1449
Book Description
Based on careful analysis of burden of disease and the costs ofinterventions, this second edition of 'Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition' highlights achievable priorities; measures progresstoward providing efficient, equitable care; promotes cost-effectiveinterventions to targeted populations; and encourages integrated effortsto optimize health. Nearly 500 experts - scientists, epidemiologists, health economists,academicians, and public health practitioners - from around the worldcontributed to the data sources and methodologies, and identifiedchallenges and priorities, resulting in this integrated, comprehensivereference volume on the state of health in developing countries.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821361805
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1449
Book Description
Based on careful analysis of burden of disease and the costs ofinterventions, this second edition of 'Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition' highlights achievable priorities; measures progresstoward providing efficient, equitable care; promotes cost-effectiveinterventions to targeted populations; and encourages integrated effortsto optimize health. Nearly 500 experts - scientists, epidemiologists, health economists,academicians, and public health practitioners - from around the worldcontributed to the data sources and methodologies, and identifiedchallenges and priorities, resulting in this integrated, comprehensivereference volume on the state of health in developing countries.
The World Health Report 2002
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9789241562072
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The world is living dangerously - either because it has little choice or because it is making the wrong choices -- Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland WHO Director-General
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9789241562072
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The world is living dangerously - either because it has little choice or because it is making the wrong choices -- Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland WHO Director-General
Natural Disaster Hotspots
Author: Maxx Dilley
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821359304
Category : Hazardous geographic environments
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This synthesis summarizes the findings of the Global Natural Disaster Risk Hotspots project. The Hotspots project generated a global disaster risk assessment and a set of more localized or hazard-specific case studies. The synthesis draws primarily from the results of the global assessment. Full details on the data, methods and results of the global analysis can be found in volume one of Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis. The case studies are contained in volume two (forthcoming).
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821359304
Category : Hazardous geographic environments
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This synthesis summarizes the findings of the Global Natural Disaster Risk Hotspots project. The Hotspots project generated a global disaster risk assessment and a set of more localized or hazard-specific case studies. The synthesis draws primarily from the results of the global assessment. Full details on the data, methods and results of the global analysis can be found in volume one of Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis. The case studies are contained in volume two (forthcoming).
Living with Risk
Author: International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
Publisher: International Strategy Disaster Reductn
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
This publication (published in 2 volumes, not sold separately by TSO) is intended for people who have an interest in and practice disaster risk management and sustainable development. It provides guidance, policy orientation and inspiration, as well as serving as a reference for lessons on how to reduce risk and vulnerability to hazards and to meet the challenges of tomorrow. It consists of (vol. 1) the report, including case studies; and (vol. 2) annexes, for example, a glossary of specialized terminology , and a directory of international, regional, national and specialized organizations (vol. 2). It replaces the preliminary version which was released in July 2002 (not available from TSO).
Publisher: International Strategy Disaster Reductn
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
This publication (published in 2 volumes, not sold separately by TSO) is intended for people who have an interest in and practice disaster risk management and sustainable development. It provides guidance, policy orientation and inspiration, as well as serving as a reference for lessons on how to reduce risk and vulnerability to hazards and to meet the challenges of tomorrow. It consists of (vol. 1) the report, including case studies; and (vol. 2) annexes, for example, a glossary of specialized terminology , and a directory of international, regional, national and specialized organizations (vol. 2). It replaces the preliminary version which was released in July 2002 (not available from TSO).