Social and Institutional Elements of Disaster Vulnerability: The Case of South India

By Lee Bosher

'This is an important book. Lee Bosher here details research in India designed to gain a better understanding of the factors that affect the vulnerability of coastal Andhra Pradesh and its populations to the hazards that they face. If we are to reduce the vulnerability of the hazard-prone and the poor, we need to understand the plight that they face. We need to explore the potential for self-help, and to target aid to those who can most benefit from outside intervention. To help to do this, Dr Bosher provides the basis of a good point of departure.' Foreword by Professor Edmund Penning-Rowsell, O.B.E.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933146354
• ISBN13: 9781933146355
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Academica Press
• Length: 324 Pages