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Mapping Vulnerability
Disasters, Development and People
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...
Published December 31st 2003 by Routledge
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Cultures of Disaster
Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines
In this fascinating and comprehensive study, Greg Bankoff traces the history of natural hazards in the Philippines from the records kept by the Spanish colonisers to the 'Calamitous Nineties', and assesses the effectiveness of the relief mechanisms that have evolved to cope with these occurrences....
Published September 11th 2002 by Routledge