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Author : Hans-Georg Bohle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Coping with Vulnerability and Criticality written by Hans-Georg Bohle and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000400298
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book On Vulnerability written by Patrick Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Vulnerability maps out an array of perspectives for critically examining the nature of vulnerability, its unequal patterning across different social groups, alongside the everyday social processes that render us vulnerable – interactions, identity and group dynamics. Each chapter equips the reader with a particular sensitising framework for navigating and questioning what it means to be vulnerable or how people cope amid vulnerability. From deviance, stigma and the spoiling or fracturing of identity, to perspectives such as intersectionality, risk, emotions and the vulnerable body, the book traces the theoretical roots of these different analytical lenses, before applying these through illuminating examples and case studies. Drawing on scholarship across more interpretative, analytic and critical traditions, the chapters combine into a multi-dimensional toolkit which will enable the study of the cultural meanings of vulnerability, the political-economic factors that shape its patterning, with a critical sensibility for ‘unlearning’ many assumptions, therefore challenging our sense of who is, or who can be, vulnerable. This book is designed to equip undergraduate and post-graduate students and researchers across the social, health and human sciences, aiding them as they study and question the experiences and structures of vulnerability in our social world.
Author : Asghar Tahmasebi
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 364390357X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Pastoral Vulnerability to Socio-political and Climate Stresses written by Asghar Tahmasebi and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on in-depth field work and living with the nomads for a whole year, Asghar Tahmasebi provides a vivid insight into the Shahsevans' strategy to cope with both political impacts and changing environmental conditions of their traditional way of life.
Author : German Advisory Council On Global Change (Wbgu)
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134207573
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book World in Transition 4 written by German Advisory Council On Global Change (Wbgu) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the 21st century, fighting poverty and protecting the environment are two of the most urgent challenges facing the international community. Environmental changes will jeopardize people's survival to an even greater extent in the future, and will hit the poor hardest. To meet these challenges, it will be essential to breathe new life into the partnership between industrialized and developing countries. It will be equally essential to combine poverty reduction with environmental protection in an integrated policy structure spanning all levels from local to global. In this report, the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) shows that global environmental policy is a prerequisite for global poverty reduction. WBGU analyses the relevant policy processes and delivers recommendations charting the way forward. 'With its interdisciplinary approach, providing a complex and systematic analysis of the poverty-environment nexus, WBGU's latest report breaks new ground. Indira Gandhi's old, convenient maxim was 'Poverty is the biggest polluter'. Put forward at the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, it has been sorely misused ever since to override environmental precaution and prioritize economic development strategies instead. The new WBGU report maps out a way to shape a coherent environment and development policy. This report revitalizes the Rio spirit and gives it a robust scientific base'. Prof Dr Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Member of the German Bundestag (MdB)
Author : Michael Bollig
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387275827
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment written by Michael Bollig and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A research focus on hazards, risk perception and risk minimizing strategies is relatively new in the social and environmental sciences. This volume by a prominent scholar of East African societies is a powerful example of this growing interest. Earlier theory and research tended to describe social and economic systems in some form of equilibrium. However recent thinking in human ecology, evolutionary biology, not to mention in economic and political theory has come to assign to "risk" a prominent role in predictive modeling of behavior. It turns out that risk minimalization is central to the understanding of individual strategies and numerous social institutions. It is not simply a peripheral and transient moment in a group’s history. Anthropologists interested in forager societies have emphasized risk management strategies as a major force shaping hunting and gathering routines and structuring institutions of food sharing and territorial behavior. This book builds on some of these developments but through the analysis of quite complex pastoral and farming peoples and in populations with substantial known histories. The method of analysis depends heavily on the controlled comparisons of different populations sharing some cultural characteristics but differing in exposure to certain risks or hazards. The central questions guiding this approach are: 1) How are hazards generated through environmental variation and degradation, through increasing internal stratification, violent conflicts and marginalization? 2) How do these hazards result in damages to single households or to individual actors and how do these costs vary within one society? 3) How are hazards perceived by the people affected? 4) How do actors of different wealth, social status, age and gender try to minimize risks by delimiting the effect of damages during an on-going crisis and what kind of institutionalized measures do they design to insure themselves against hazards, preventing their occurrence or limiting their effects? 5) How is risk minimization affected by cultural innovation and how can the importance of the quest for enhanced security as a driving force of cultural evolution be estimated?
Author : Donald A. Wilhite
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317854241
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Droughts written by Donald A. Wilhite and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drought draws together contributions from over 75 leading international researchers in the field to present the most comprehensive body of research on the physical and social dimensions of drought to date. Including an extensive range of case-studies covering the most drought-prone and most affected countries, the contributors examine new technology, planning methodologies and mitigation actions from recent drought experiences worldwide. Following a discussion of the critical concepts of drought, the work is divided into the following additional parts: · causes and predictability · monitoring and early warning techniques · impacts and assessment methodologies · links between drought and other global issues · conclusions and future challenges
Author : Peter Uvin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9782884491181
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Hunger Report 1993 written by Peter Uvin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994-04 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Hunger Report: 1993" is the fifth in a series by the Brown University World Hunger Program. Drawing on numerous reports of hunger researchers, monitors, and policy makers, it classifies and clarifies their diverse data within a single typology of hunger caused by food shortage, food poverty, and food deprivation. Policy makers, academicians, and practitioners concerned with hunger and development will find this book an invaluable resource. In the year 1993, hunger was definitely on the international development agenda. The world has witnessed with mounting concern the needless persistence of hunger and, along with it, a proliferation of often-conflicting supporting data, a multiplication of often-conflicting institutional efforts, an escalation in political rhetoric, and an overall increase in media and public attention.
Author : Hans Günter Brauch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 364217776X
Total Pages : 1816 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security written by Hans Günter Brauch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 1816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security - Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks reviews conceptual debates and case studies focusing on disasters and security threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks in Europe, the Mediterranean and other regions. It discusses social science concepts of vulnerability and risks, global, regional and national security challenges, global warming, floods, desertification and drought as environmental security challenges, water and food security challenges and vulnerabilities, vulnerability mapping of environmental security challenges and risks, contributions of remote sensing to the recognition of security risks, mainstreaming early warning of conflicts and hazards and provides conceptual and policy conclusions.
Author : Andrea Grove
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642452752
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Social Business written by Andrea Grove and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceptualized and put into practice by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Dr. Muhammad Yunus, social businesses work to address social ills such as poverty, lack of health care, gaps in education and environmental challenges. This book explores the ideation, practice and evaluation of the concept of social business. Not just theoretical foundations but several case studies of social businesses around the world and state-of-the-art assessment of the issues that arise in the planning, marketing and evaluation of social businesses, are featured in this book. This cutting-edge collection of articles, presented by the California Institute for Social Business (CISB) in collaboration with Professor Yunus, is one of the first comprehensive collections of theory and research on the emerging field of social business. The diverse group of authors come from around the world and from various disciplinary backgrounds, representing the leading academic experts on social business phenomena.
Author : Estelle Ferrarese
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900436790X
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Vulnerability and Critical Theory written by Estelle Ferrarese and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Vulnerability and Critical Theory, Estelle Ferrarese identifies contemporary developments on the theme of vulnerability within critical theory while also seeking to reconstruct an idea of vulnerability that enables an articulation of the political and demonstrates how it is socially produced.
Author : German Advisory Council on Global Change
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642569587
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Strategies for Managing Global Environmental Risks written by German Advisory Council on Global Change and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global risk potentials and their interplay with economic, social and ecological processes of change have emerged as a challenge to the international community. By presenting this report, the Council hopes to contribute constructively to an effective, efficient and objective management of the risks of global change. The approach taken by the Council is first to classify globally relevant risks and then to assign to these classes of risk both established and innovative risk assessment strategies and risk management tools. On this basis, management priorities can be set. The Council further recommends a number of cross-cutting strategies for international policies. These include worldwide alignment of liability law, creation of environmental liability funds, establishment of a United Nations Risk Assessment Panel and implementation of strategies aimed at reducing vulnerability to risk.
Author : Eduardo Calixto
Publisher : Bentham Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608059529
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Safety Science: Methods to Prevent Incidents and Worker Health Damage at the Workplace written by Eduardo Calixto and published by Bentham Science Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Risk management is a process through which an organization methodically analyses risks inherent in all of its operational activities with the aim of minimizing damage to physical assets or occupational health hazards. Risk Management, therefore, should be a central element in the management strategy of any organization as it plays a crucial role in giving the organization a sustainable operational advantage. Safety Science: Methods to Prevent Incidents and Worker Health Damage at the Workplace is a handbook for management students and working professionals (safety professionals, human resource managers, insurance officers etc.) interested in the science of risk management and methods to implements safety standards at the workplace. The book introduces readers to the concept of occupational risk and occupational health management. It explains the concepts relevant to these topics such as safety economy valuation and asset integrity management. Assessment tools related to qualitative and quantitative risk management, incident and vulnerability analysis are also provided. Additionally, readers will find information on the human factors and methods to improve human engagement in risk management as well as information about current safety standards and systems in organizations around the world.
Author : Thomas E. Downing
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642610862
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Climate Change and World Food Security written by Thomas E. Downing and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last half decade since sustainable development became a serious objective, what have we achieved? Are livelihoods more secure? Are nations wealthier and more resilient? Is environmental quality being restored or maintained? These are essential questions of development. Their answers are many, varied between communities and regions, even between individuals. Two years ago, in the aftermath of the Earth Summit and ratification of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, but before the first Conference of Parties, I participated in a panel at the inaugural Oxford Environment Conference on Climate Change and World Food Security. The panel vigorously reviewed issues of resilient development and food security. This book is a product of the Oxford Environment Conference. It takes the essential questions of sustainability as a starting point to focus on present food security and its future prospects in the face of climate change. Why is this book important? First, I believe our goals to end hunger are under threat. We know what to do in many respects, but fail to generate the finances and political will to change the structures that thrive on poverty. Second, I believe concern about the environment has become dangerously separated from the fundamental issues of human deprivation. Third, I believe climate change is a serious threat and I am dismayed at the way nations dither over how to control greenhouse gas emissions and mechanisms to meet the challenge of adverse climate impacts.
Author : JOE. STRANGE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033046685
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (466 download)
Download or read book CENTERS OF GRAVITY AND CRITICAL VULNERABILITIES written by JOE. STRANGE and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Costanzo Ranci
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230245773
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Social Vulnerability in Europe written by Costanzo Ranci and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the dimensions and characteristics of social vulnerability in Western Europe. It provides a broad empirical foundation for recent theories on the emergence of new social risks in post-industrial societies, revealing to what extent social risks are compromising the 'normal' functioning of the European population.
Author : David J. Cuff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Global Change written by David J. Cuff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oxford Companion to Global Change provides a concise guide to the realities of a planet in transition, covering such crucial topics as the threat of declining crude oil production, the status of coal-burning technology, and the future of nuclear power. Over 150 scientists and specialists, led by David J. Cuff and Andrew S. Goudie of Temple University and Oxford University respectively, contribute entries on key subjects, demonstrating the social, political, and technological interrelationships between them."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Fouad N. Ibrahim
Publisher : Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Bayreuth
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Coping with Resource Scarcity written by Fouad N. Ibrahim and published by Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Bayreuth. This book was released on 1997 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
