At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters
At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters
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10.2307/2137699
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1996-03
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B. Wisner;P. Blaikie;T. Cannon;I. Davis
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作者：
B. Wisner;P. Blaikie;T. Cannon;I. Davis
许多灾害是自然灾害和人类活动的复杂混合体。《风险》认为，社会、政治和经济环境与自然环境一样是灾害的原因。在国际减少自然灾害十年内出版，这本书提出了社会科学和自然科学可以通过“灾害压力和释放”模型进行分析结合的方法。作者认为，脆弱性的概念是理解灾害及其预防或缓解的核心，他们探讨了人们获得资源的程度和方式。个别章节将分析概念应用于饥荒和干旱、生物危害、洪水、沿海风暴、地震、火山和山体滑坡--这些危害最终成为灾害。最后，本书得出了实际和政策结论，以促进更安全的环境和减少脆弱性。
Many disasters are a complex mix of natural hazards and human action. At Risk argues that the social, political and economic environment is as much a cause of disasters as the natural environment. Published within the International Decade of Natural Hazard Reduction, this book suggests ways in which both the social and natural sciences can be analytically combined through a 'disaster pressure and release' model. Arguing that the concept of vulnerability is central to an understanding of disasters and their prevention or mitigation, the authors explore the extent and ways in which people gain access to resources. Individual chapters apply analytical concepts to famines and drought, biological hazards, floods, coastal storms, and earthquakes, volcanos and landslides - the hazards that become disasters'. Finally, the book draws practical and policy conclusions to promote a safer environment and reduce vulnerability.