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  • AT RISK
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    AT RISK
    PIERS BLAIKIE / TERRY CANNON / IAN DAVIS / BEN WISNER
    The term 'natural disaster' is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase 'natural disaster' suggests an uncritical acceptance of a deeply engrained ideological and cultural myth. At Risk questions this myth and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed. The update...

    $1,420.00

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  • TOWARDS A NEW MAP OF AFRICA
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    TOWARDS A NEW MAP OF AFRICA
    CAMILLA TOULMIN / BEN WISNER
    'The big, era-defining questions and, at last, the subtle, tenable answers, teased out without clich or compromise. A vital volume at a critical moment.' Dr Augustus Casely-Hayford, Director, Africa '05 'This book dispels the myth of a uniformly hopeless, hungry continent. It shows just how extraordinarily diverse Africa is and how much it has changed in the last 20 years.Full ...

    $1,160.00

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  • DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
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    DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
    MARK PELLING / BEN WISNER
    Published with ProVention Consortium, UNDP and UN-Habitat 'This excellent book is essential reading for those concerned with urban risk and its reduction in Africa, the most rapidly urbanizing region of the world.' Professor Jo Beall, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics 'At last a book that recognizes the impacts of disasters on Africa's 350 million urban ...

    $1,320.00

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  • HANDBOOK OF HAZARDS AND DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
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    HANDBOOK OF HAZARDS AND DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
    BEN WISNER
    The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future development of conceptual, theoretical and practical approaches as well as empirical knowledge and available tools. O...

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  • POWER AND NEED IN AFRICA
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    POWER AND NEED IN AFRICA
    BEN WISNER
    Power and Need in Africa (1988) examines the mechanisms for giving the poor of Africa the means to develop their own future – a renaissance which has as its constituent elements environmental sustainability, women’s emancipation and social justice. ...

    $1,480.00

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