Why Vulnerability Still Matters: The Politics of Disaster Risk Creation

• Main Authors: Bankoff, Greg, Hillhorst, Dorothea
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2022
• Subjects: Disaster Studies; Mitigation; Vulnerability; Emergency and Disaster Management; History
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/95; https://www.routledge.com/Why-Vulnerability-Still-Matters-The-Politics-of-Disaster-Risk-Creation/Bankoff-Hilhorst/p/book/9781032113432
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

We think vulnerability still matters when considering how people are put at risk from hazards and this book shows why in a series of thematic chapters and case studies written by eminent disaster studies scholars that deal with the politics of disaster risk creation: precarity, conflict, and climate...