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1. Recovery after Disaster

   Providing Shelter and Rebuilding Communities

   By Ian Davis, David Alexander

   To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Reducing Disaster Risks

   Progress and Challenges in the Caribbean Region

   Edited by Ian Davis, Steve Bender, Fred Krimgold, Franklin McDonald

   Series: Environmental Hazards Series

   Are we winning or losing the battle for safe environments? In 1984, leading disaster risk management professionals and researchers met in Jamaica for the Ocho Rios conference on Disaster Mitigation. In this collection, key experts reflect on the progress made in disaster risk reduction since that...

   Published March 14th 2011 by Routledge
3. 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
4. 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
5. Disasters and the Small Dwelling

   Perspectives for the UN IDNDR

   By Yasemin Aysan

   Edited by Ian Davis

   This book contains the proceeding of the conferences on Disasters and the Small Dwelling, held at Oxford in September 1990. The 26 papers cover recent experiences of post-disaster shelter and housing provision, review what has been achieved, what needs disseminating and implementing, and assesses...

   Published December 31st 1991 by Routledge