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Unnatural Disasters
Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail but Some Succeed
2021 || Hardcover || Gonzalo Lizarralde || Columbia University Press
Storms, floods, fires, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, and other disasters seem not only more frequent but also closer to home. As the world faces this onslaught, we have placed our faith in sustainable development's which promises that we can survive and even thrive in the face of climate change and other risks. Yet while claiming to go green we have instead created new risks, continued to degrade nature, and failed to halt global warming.
Unnatural Disasters offers a new perspective on ou...
Disaster Risk
2022 || Paperback || Irasema Alcantara-Ayala e.a. || Taylor & Francis
The text offers a comprehensive and unique perspective on disaster risk associated with natural hazards. It covers a wide range of topics, reflecting the most recent debates but also older and pioneering discussions in the academic field of disaster studies as well as in the policy and practical areas of disaster risk reduction.