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Understanding vulnerability : South Asian perspectives
- Title
- Understanding vulnerability : South Asian perspectives / edited by John Twigg and Mihir R. Bhatt.
- Publication
- London : Intermediate Technology Publications on behalf of Duryog Nivaran, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HV555.S64 U533 1998 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vii, 84 pages : maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- Each year more than 130 million people are affected by natural hazards such as floods, earthquakes, droughts and cyclones. This book explores these issues from a South Asian standpoint, presented in the form of case studies and essays by experts from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
- Subject
- Note
- Papers selected from an international workshop in Sri Lanka in August 1997.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-80).
- Contents
- Understanding vulnerability / John Twigg -- Women victims' view of urban and rural vulnerability / Ela R. Bhatt -- Drought and household coping strategies among peasant communities in the dry zone of Sri Lanka / R.B. Senaka Arachchi -- Coping with climatic disasters in isolated hill communities of Nepal / Ngamindra Dahal -- Can vulnerability be understood? / Mihir R. Bhatt.
- ISBN
- 1853394556
- 9781853394553
- 1853394548
- 9781853394546
- LCCN
- 99945374
- OCLC
- ocm43852480
- 43852480
- SCSB-568354
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library