02046cam a22002178i 4500 37965 37965 9781032113432 eng- 363.348 WHY- Why vulnerability still matters : the politics of disaster risk creation / edited by Greg Bankoff and Dorothea Hilhorst. UK : Routledge, 2022. xiv, 240p. Includes bibliographical references and index. "We think vulnerability still matters when considering how people are put at risk from hazards and this book shows why in a series of thematic chapters and case studies written by eminent disaster studies scholars that deal with the politics of disaster risk creation: precarity, conflict, and climate change. The chapters in this book highlight different aspects of vulnerability and disaster risk creation, placing the stress rightly on what causes disasters and explaining the politics of how they are created through a combination of human interference with natural processes, the social production of vulnerability, and the neglect of response capacities. Importantly, too, the book provides a platform for many of those most prominently involved in launching disaster studies as a social discipline to reflect on developments over the past 50 years and to comment on current trends. The interdisciplinary and historical perspective that this book provides will appeal to scholars and practitioners at both the national and international level seeking to study, develop, and support effective social protection strategies to prevent or mitigate the effects of hazards on vulnerable populations. It will also prove an invaluable reference work for students and all those interested in the future safety of the world we live in"-- English. Disaster relief Political aspects. Hazard mitigation Political aspects. Natural disasters Political aspects. Hihorst, Dorothea editor. Bankoff, Greg editor. ddc BK 0 0 0 0 NASSDOC NASSDOC 2023-03-16 Overseas 0.00 0 363.348 WHY- 53627 2023-06-02 00:00:00 0.00 2023-06-02 BK