Disasters (Record no. 26228)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 01509 a2200169 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780745671024 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 363.341 |
| Item number | TIE-D |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Tierney, Kathleen |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Disasters |
| Sub Title | : a sociological approach |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | Polity Press |
| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Place of publication | United Kingdom |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xiii,311p |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Include Bibliography and Index<br/> |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at its very core. This important book sheds light on the social conditions and on the global, national, and local processes that produce disasters. Topics covered include the social roots of disaster vulnerability, exposure to natural hazards such as hurricanes and tsunamis as a form of environmental injustice, and emerging threats. Written by a leading expert in the field, this book provides the necessary frameworks for understanding hazards and disasters, exploring the contributions of very different social science fields to disaster research and showing how these ideas have evolved over time. Bringing the social aspects of recent devastating disasters to the forefront, Tierney discusses the challenges of conducting research in the aftermath of disasters and critiques the concept of disaster resilience, which has come to be seen as a key to disaster risk reduction. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | <br/><br/> |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Disasters--Social aspects |
| Form subdivision | Disasters--Research |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Bill Date | Full call number | Accession Number | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| NASSDOC Library | NASSDOC Library | 2020-07-07 | OP | 1480.83 | 2020-06-11 | 363.341 TIE-D | 50987 | 2028.53 | 2020-07-15 | Books |