Social vulnerability to disasters

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Phillips Brenda
Published: CRC Press,
Publisher Address: Boca Raton, FL
Publication Dates: c2010.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xii, 392 p.: ill., maps ; 27 cm.
ISBN: 9781420078565 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1420078569 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Index Number: X4
CLC: X4
Call Number: X4/S678
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theoretical framing of worldviews, values, and structural dimensions of disasters / Jean Scandlyn ... [et al.] -- The intrinsic link of vulnerability to sustainable development / Katie Oviatt and John Brett -- Class / Nicole Dash, Brenda G. McCoy, and Alison Herring -- Race and ethnicity / Nicole Dash -- Gender / Elaine Enarson -- Age / Lori Peek -- Disability / Alan Clive ... [et al.] -- Health / Deborah S.K. Thomas, Elizabeth A. Davis, and Alan Clive -- Language and literacy / Betty Hearn Morrow -- Households and families / Lynn Blinn-Pike -- Violence and disaster vulnerability / Brenda D.