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Title:Mapping vulnerability: disasters, development and people
Editors:Bankoff, GregISNI
Frerks, GeorgISNI
Hilhorst, DorotheaISNI
Year:2004
Pages:236
Language:English
City of publisher:London
Publisher:Earthscan
ISBN:1853839639; 9781853839634; 1853839647; 9781853839641
Geographic terms:world
Ethiopia
Subjects:disasters
risk
Abstract:The key to understanding the causes of disasters and mitigating their impacts is the concept of 'vulnerability'. Through the notion of vulnerability, all the contributors to this collective volume stress, in their different ways, the importance of social processes and human-environmental interactions as causal agents in the making of disasters. They examine what renders communities unsafe, as well as looking at vulnerability in terms of its relationship to development and its impact on policy and people's lives, through case studies drawn from Africa, Asia and Latin America. One chapter specifically concerns Ethiopia. In it, Linda Stephen discusses the influence of global discourses, how this affects policy and discourse in the Ethiopian national early warning system, and spatial-scale issues present in food-aid targeting and intervention in the middle and late 1990s. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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