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dc.contributor.authorCannon, Terryen
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-15-
dc.date.accessioned2011-04-26T07:40:38Z-
dc.date.available2011-04-26T07:40:38Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.isbn978-92-9230-080-7en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/45089-
dc.description.abstractThe concepts vulnerability, resilience and community are widely used and abused in the literature on natural hazards and disaster risk reduction. This paper seeks to bring greater rigour in their use. In particular, vulnerability must be understood as a set of socioeconomic conditions that are identifiable in relation to particular hazard risks, and therefore perform a predictive role that can assist in risk reduction. Resilience is often confused as a concept, sometimes seen as the inverse of vulnerability, and by others as an independent quality. These confusions may be especially relevant in the context of §policy for disaster risk reduction at the scale of community. Here there is often an idealized notion of community as undifferentiated and unproblematic.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aThe United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) |cHelsinkien
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aWIDER Research Paper |x2008/34en
dc.subject.jelQ54en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordhousehold analysisen
dc.subject.keywordpolitical economyen
dc.subject.keywordeconomic developmenten
dc.subject.keywordvulnerabilityen
dc.subject.keywordresilienceen
dc.subject.keywordcommunityen
dc.subject.keywordnatural hazardsen
dc.subject.keyworddisasteren
dc.titleReducing people's vulnerability to natural hazards communities and resilience-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn571444865en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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