Regions of Risk: Hazards, Vulnerability and Disaster

by Kenneth Hewitt

Book Overview

An introduction to hazards, human vulnerability and disaster, paying particular attention to the more severe or novel risks and disaster that affect the general public. The book is split into two parts, the first of which gives an overview of the field of risk and disaster in terms of three perspectives: hazards perspective; vulnerability perspective and the active perspective. The second part illustrates and develops these ideas in relation to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00EZ1X9N0
• ISBN13: 9780582210059
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"