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Title: DEVELOPMENT IN DISASTER-PRONE PLACES
STUDIES OF VULNERABILITY
By: James Lewis
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 1853394726
ISBN 13: 9781853394720
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Publisher: ITDG PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 1 January, 1999
Pages: 192
Synopsis: This book addresses the long-overdue imbalance in disaster management: an over-emphasis on post-disaster assistance and a lack of attention to vulnerability reduction. It answers the fundamental question in this debate: how can we mould pre-disaster development initiatives to become the most appropriate means for vulnerability reduction The book reasserts and reapplies some of the basic concepts and issues which emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, with the message that development is a prime medium both of vulnerability and its reduction. The author examines requirements for long-term change so that conditions which have become the context for catastrophe can be modified. By focusing on longer-term policies and activities now, emergency relief efforts have a positive context within which to contribute to development and the likelihood of recurrence will be reduced. The book contains case-studies from Sri Lanka, the Caribbean and the South Pacific and focuses on hazards of all kinds, setting out to redress the balance between large-scale disasters of global significance and small-scale disasters that are a matter of everyday existence.
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Imprint: ITDG Publishing
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