ABSTRACT

Leading editors have curated collections of important Routledge research in ebook form to share recommended paths to understanding cutting-edge topics.

In this book Ilan Kelman presents his guide to the must-read research on the subject of Disaster Prevention.

chapter |13 pages

Risk and Danger

chapter |13 pages

Sustainable Disasters?

Perspectives and powers in the discourse of calamity

chapter |19 pages

Framing Disaster

Theories and Stories Seeking to Understand Hazards, Vulnerability and Risk

chapter |24 pages

The Worm in the Bud

Corruption, construction and catastrophe

chapter |14 pages

Peru's Five-Hundred-Year Earthquake

Vulnerability in Historical Context 1