The social roots of risk : producing disasters, promoting resilience / Kathleen Tierney.

By:

Tierney, Kathleen J [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: High reliability and crisis managementPublication details: California : Stanford University Press, 2014.Description: xiii, 301 p. ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780804791397 (pbk.)
9780804772631 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

302.12 TIE 23 007558

LOC classification:

HM1101 .T54 2014

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Table of contents

Contents:

Risking more, losing more : thinking about risk and resilience -- Looking back : the evolution of how we talk about risk -- A different perspective : the social production of risk -- Culture and the production of risk -- Organizations, institutions, and the production of risk -- Communities and societies at risk -- Defining resilience in relation to risk -- Adaptive resilience in the face of disasters -- Looking ahead : a move toward safety, or more of the same?

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	302.12 TIE 007558 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		007558

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-271) and index.

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