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1. Disaster Management

   International Lessons in Risk Reduction, Response and Recovery

   Edited by Alejandro López-Carresi, Maureen Fordham, Ben Wisner, Ilan Kelman, JC Gaillard

   There is a perennial gap between theory and practice, between academia and active professionals in the field of disaster management. This gap means that valuable lessons are not learned and people die or suffer as a result. This book opens a dialogue between theory and practice. It offers vital...

   To Be Published October 16th 2013 by Routledge
2. Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

   Edited by Ben Wisner, J.C. Gaillard, Ilan Kelman

   The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future development of conceptual,...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
3. Disaster Risk Reduction

   Cases from Urban Africa

   By Mark Pelling, Ben Wisner

   Published with ProVention Consortium, UNDP and UN-Habitat 'This excellent book is essential reading for those concerned with urban risk and its reduction in Africa, the most rapidly urbanizing region of the world.' Professor Jo Beall, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics '...

   Published December 17th 2008 by Routledge
4. Towards a New Map of Africa

   Edited by Ben Wisner, Camilla Toulmin, International Institute for Environment, Rutendo Chitiga

   'The big, era-defining questions and, at last, the subtle, tenable answers, teased out without clich? or compromise. A vital volume at a critical moment.' Dr Augustus Casely-Hayford, Director, Africa '05 'This book dispels the myth of a uniformly hopeless, hungry continent. It shows just how?...

   Published August 31st 2005 by Routledge
5. At Risk

   Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters, 2nd Edition

   By Piers Blaikie, Terry Cannon, Ian Davis, Ben Wisner

   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...

   Published November 12th 2003 by Routledge
6. At Risk

   Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters

   By Piers Blaikie, Terry Cannon, Ian Davis, Ben Wisner

   At Risk reasserts the significance of the human factor in disasters. Establishing that the social, political and economic environment is as much a cause of disasters as the natural environment, the book argues that disaster mitigation is rooted in the potential humans have to understand their...

   Published June 29th 1994 by Routledge