Published with ProVention Consortium UNDP and UN-Habitat 'This excellent book is essential reading for those concerned with urban risk and its reduction in Africa the most rapidly urbanizing region of the world.' Professor Jo Beall Development Studies Institute London School of …
Rapid urbanization is exacerbating risk and vulnerability world-wide, particularly in Africa in the face of climate change, but it also offers the opportunity for action on risk reduction. This book covers a diversity of disasters and hazards including: floods, earthquakes, fire…
The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future development of …
"The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state-of-the-art and future development of c…
The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state-of-the-art and future development of co…
