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Disaster and development

By: Series: Routledge perspectives on development no. 8Publication details: Routledge 2009 LondonDescription: xvii, 285 pISBN:
  • 9780415426688
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.9
Summary: Development to a large extent determines the way in which hazards impact on people. Meanwhile the occurrence of disasters alters the scope of development. Whilst a notion of the association of disaster and development is as old as development studies itself, recent decades have produced an intensifying demand for a fuller understanding. Evidence of disaster and development progressing together has attracted increased institutional attention. This includes recognition, through global accords, of a need for disaster reduction in achieving Millennium Development Goals, and of sustainable development as central to disaster reduction. However, varied interpretations of this linkage, and accessible options for future human well being, remain unconsolidated for most of humanity.
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 23-B / Slot 974 (0 Floor, East Wing) Non-fiction General Stacks 338.9 C6D4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 170891

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-277) and index.

Development to a large extent determines the way in which hazards impact on people. Meanwhile the occurrence of disasters alters the scope of development. Whilst a notion of the association of disaster and development is as old as development studies itself, recent decades have produced an intensifying demand for a fuller understanding. Evidence of disaster and development progressing together has attracted increased institutional attention. This includes recognition, through global accords, of a need for disaster reduction in achieving Millennium Development Goals, and of sustainable development as central to disaster reduction. However, varied interpretations of this linkage, and accessible options for future human well being, remain unconsolidated for most of humanity.

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