LIBROS DEL AUTOR: mark pelling

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  • Disaster Risk Reduction
    Ben Wisner / Mark Pelling
    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 Economics ’At last a book that recognizes the impacts of disasters on Africa’s 350 million urban d...
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    88,15 €

  • Adaptation to Climate Change
    Mark Pelling
    The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this context, it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly defensive task - protecting core assets or functions from the risks of climate change. A more profound engagement, which sees climate change risks as a product and driver of social as w...
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    101,78 €

  • The Vulnerability of Cities
    Mark Pelling
    When disaster strikes in cities the effects can be catastrophic compared to other environments. But what factors actually determine the vulnerability or resilience of cities? The Vulnerability of Cities fills a vital gap in disaster studies by examining the too-often overlooked impact of disasters on cities, the conditions leading to high losses from urban disasters and why som...
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    104,47 €

  • Natural Disaster and Development in a Globalizing World
    Mark Pelling
    The number of humanitarian disasters triggered by a natural hazard has doubled every decade since the 1960s. At the same time, the global economic growth rate per capita is twice its 1960s value. Does this mean economic growth is independent of the impacts of natural disaster? Natural Disaster and Development in a Globalizing World is the first book to acknowledge the full im...
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    61,00 €