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  • REDUCING DISASTER RISKS
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    REDUCING DISASTER RISKS
    IAN DAVIS, STEPHEN O. BENDER, FREDRICK KRIMGOLD AND FRANKLIN J. MCDONALD
    Are we winning or losing the battle for safe environments? In 1984, leading disaster risk management professionals and researchers met in Jamaica for the Ocho Rios conference on Disaster Mitigation. In this collection, key experts reflect on the progress made in disaster risk reduction since that conference, with a particular emphasis on the Caribbean. Areas of focus include: t...

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  • RECOVERY FROM DISASTER
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    RECOVERY FROM DISASTER
    IAN DAVIS / DAVID ALEXANDER
    Disasters can dominate newspaper headlines and fill our TV screens with relief appeals, but the complex long-term challenge of recovery—providing shelter, rebuilding safe dwellings, restoring livelihoods and shattered lives—generally fails to attract the attention of the public and most agencies. On average 650 disasters occur each year. They affect more than 200 million people...

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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...

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  • DULWICH
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    DULWICH
    PAUL DAVIS / ELISABETH KENDALL / IAN MCINNES / CATHERINE SAMY
    Dulwich’s mid-century modern architecture is increasingly recognised for its qualities of light, landscape and lifestyle. In the 1950s, 60s and 70s, around 2,000 new homes were created to the most modern standards without destroying the qualities which had made Dulwich so attractive to previous generations. With both historic and new photography, this book showcases the award-w...

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