03128nam 22006015 450 991025412090332120200702143031.03-319-41667-710.1007/978-3-319-41667-0(CKB)3710000000749177(DE-He213)978-3-319-41667-0(MiAaPQ)EBC4591695(PPN)194516229(EXLCZ)99371000000074917720160711d2016 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDisaster Risk Reduction and the Global System Ruminations on a Way Forward /by Michael Gordy1st ed. 2016.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2016.1 online resource (V, 71 p.)SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies,2213-784X3-319-41666-9 Includes bibliographical references.Introduction -- Underlying Risk Factors -- The Social Construction of Risk -- Development and Risk -- The Poverty-Disaster Risk Nexus -- Global Capitalism and Disaster Risk -- Political Will and Governance -- The Importance of Extensive Risk -- The Invisibility of Risks -- Urbanization and Land Use -- Agribusiness and Food Security -- Environmental Degradation -- Climate Change as a Magnifier and Meta-disaster -- Conclusion. .This short manuscript is both a distillation of some of the latest work on disaster risk reduction and an interpretation of this distillation from the author's political economic perspective. It is based on information found in the flagship reports on disaster risk reduction of the United Nations. The book sums up and interprets issues of disaster risk reduction and makes them accessible to professional and non-professional readers alike, including governmental policy makers.SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies,2213-784XClimate changePolitical economyNatural disastersClimate Changehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/U12007Climate Change Management and Policyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/314000International Political Economyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/912140Natural Hazardshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G32000Climate change.Political economy.Natural disasters.Climate Change.Climate Change Management and Policy.International Political Economy.Natural Hazards.363.346Gordy Michaelauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1059903MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910254120903321Disaster Risk Reduction and the Global System2509411UNINA