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Development in Disaster-Prone Places
Studies of vulnerability
Published: 1999
Pages: 192
eBook: 9781780442013
Paperback: 9781853394720
This book addresses the long-overdue imbalance in disaster management: an over-emphasis on post-disaster assistance and a lack of attention to vulnerability reduction. It answers the fundamental question in this debate: how can we mould pre-disaster development initiatives to become the most appropriate means for vulnerability reduction The book reasserts and reapplies some of the basic concepts and issues which emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, with the message that development is a prime medium both of vulnerability and its reduction. The author examines requirements for long-term change so that conditions which have become the context for catastrophe can be modified. By focusing on longer-term policies and activities now, emergency relief efforts have a positive context within which to contribute to development and the likelihood of recurrence will be reduced. The book contains case-studies from Sri Lanka, the Caribbean and the South Pacific and focuses on hazards of all kinds, setting out to redress the balance between large-scale disasters of global significance and small-scale disasters that are a matter of everyday existence.
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Title of Page | iii | ||
| Copyright Page | iv | ||
| Table of Contents | v | ||
| Foreword | viii | ||
| Preface | ix | ||
| Acknowledgements | x | ||
| Introduction | xi | ||
| Part One: Vulnerability | 1 | ||
| 10: The Next Ten Years and More | 162 | ||
| References | 164 | ||
| Index | 170 | ||
| 1: The Meaning of Vulnerability | 3 | ||
| National and Local Vulnerability | 3 | ||
| The Meaning of Vulnerability | 4 | ||
| Vulnerability and Risk | 8 | ||
| 2: The Observation, Perception and Identification of Vulnerability | 12 | ||
| Observation of Vulnerability | 12 | ||
| Perception of Vulnerability | 12 | ||
| Identification of Vulnerability | 14 | ||
| Movement of Populations | 16 | ||
| Historical Studies | 18 | ||
| Small Countries and Island States | 18 | ||
| Climate Change and Sea Level Rise | 20 | ||
| 3: The Experience of Vulnerability | 23 | ||
| Dependency | 23 | ||
| National Vulnerability | 23 | ||
| Social Vulnerability | 24 | ||
| Institutional, Military and Systems Vulnerability | 24 | ||
| Economic Vulnerability | 25 | ||
| Environmental Vulnerability | 26 | ||
| 4: The Making of Vulnerability | 27 | ||
| Population Displacement | 27 | ||
| Commercial Agriculture | 27 | ||
| Erosion and Flooding | 28 | ||
| Urban Shanty Settlements | 29 | ||
| Coastal Tourism | 29 | ||
| Disasters as Agents of Future Vulnerability | 30 | ||
| Conflict and Vulnerability | 32 | ||
| Algeria | 32 | ||
| Papua New Guinea | 33 | ||
| Ethiopia | 34 | ||
| 5: Survival – Vulnerability and Development | 36 | ||
| Survival; A Neglected Issue | 36 | ||
| Post-disaster Assistance and Vulnerability | 37 | ||
| Vulnerability and Development | 39 | ||
| Part Two: Studies of Vulnerability | 43 | ||
| Vulnerability and the Analysis of Context | 45 | ||
| The Reporting of Disasters | 45 | ||
| Prevailing Conditions and Characteristics | 46 | ||
| Island Places | 47 | ||
| Recurring Themes | 48 | ||
| The Incumbent and the Creator of Vulnerability | 48 | ||
| Massive Proportional Impacts and Small-scale Responses | 48 | ||
| Recurrence | 50 | ||
| Interrelationships | 51 | ||
| Mutual Protection | 51 | ||
| Maintenance | 51 | ||
| The Case-studies | 52 | ||
| Case-studies | 54 | ||
| I: Volcano in Tonga | 54 | ||
| II: Some Perspectives on Natural Disaster Vulnerability in Tonga | 60 | ||
| III: A Multi-hazard History of Antigua | 74 | ||
| IV: Vulnerability to a Cyclone: Damage Distribution in Sri Lanka | 87 | ||
| V: Change, and Vulnerability to a Natural Hazard: Chiswell, Dorset | 109 | ||
| Part Three: A Pattern for Development | 125 | ||
| 6: Development and Disasters | 127 | ||
| A Brief History | 127 | ||
| A Cyclical Concept | 129 | ||
| Institutions and Policies | 131 | ||
| Management for Comprehensive Development | 133 | ||
| 7: Equitable Preventive Development | 137 | ||
| Equitable Practice | 137 | ||
| Decentralization and Accessibility | 138 | ||
| Survival and Recovery | 141 | ||
| Vulnerability and Sustainability | 142 | ||
| 8: Vulnerability Reduction in Development | 145 | ||
| A Review | 145 | ||
| Disasters – The Monitor of Development | 146 | ||
| Urban and Rural Balance | 146 | ||
| Preventive Development | 147 | ||
| Project Identification | 150 | ||
| Reconstruction and Implementation | 151 | ||
| 9: Strategic Development for Vulnerability Reduction | 153 | ||
| Insider Assessments | 156 | ||
| Recurrence | 157 | ||
| Survival, Equitability, Sustainability – and Interrelatedness | 157 | ||
| Populations | 158 | ||
| Social Infrastructure | 158 | ||
| Physical and Other Infrastructure | 159 | ||
| Emergency Assistance | 159 | ||
| Policy and Administration | 159 |
James Lewis
James Lewis is a visiting fellow in Development Studies at the University of Bath and a consultant in environmental hazards and human settlements.
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