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Vulnerability, Risks, and Complexity
- Publication Year:
- 2012
- Edition:
- 1st Ed.
- Author:
- Kabisch; Kunath; Schweizer-Ries; Steinführer
- Publisher:
- Hogrefe Publishing GmbH
- ISBN:
- 978-0-88-937435-5
- Doody Core Title Score:
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Offers state-of-the-art research on the interrelations between the social, built, and natural environments.
This book is useful to scholars in cross-cutting areas of urban, hazard, planning, governance, and sustainability research in relation to socio-psychological perspectives. Readers benefit from new theoretical as well as empirically based research findings in the emerging field of social-science vulnerability studies.
The contributions in this volume cover six broad research fields:
The volume includes papers investigating human habitats within a variety of settlement structures and settings that are negatively affected by extreme weather events, natural hazards, infectious diseases, contaminations, or crime; as well as empirical case studi
This book is useful to scholars in cross-cutting areas of urban, hazard, planning, governance, and sustainability research in relation to socio-psychological perspectives. Readers benefit from new theoretical as well as empirically based research findings in the emerging field of social-science vulnerability studies.
The contributions in this volume cover six broad research fields:
- Reflections on vulnerability and risks in complex environments
- Coping with climate change and natural hazardss
- Social dimensions of vulnerability and riskss
- Participation and strategies of risk reductions
- Strengthening pro-environmental behaviors
- Place-making and urban designs
The volume includes papers investigating human habitats within a variety of settlement structures and settings that are negatively affected by extreme weather events, natural hazards, infectious diseases, contaminations, or crime; as well as empirical case studi
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- Platform:
- OvidSP
- Publisher:
- Hogrefe Publishing GmbH
- Product Type:
- Book
- Author:
- Kabisch; Kunath; Schweizer-Ries; Steinführer
- ISBN:
- 978-0-88-937435-5
- Specialty:
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- Earth & Geological Sciences
- Environmental Sciences
- Sociology
- Ecology
- Psychology
- Language:
- English
- Edition:
- 1st Ed.
- Pages:
- 322
- Publication Year:
- 2012
- Doody Core Title Score:
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