Risk, Vulnerability and Everyday Life 0415370809, 9780415370806

Risk and Everyday Life 9780761947585, 0761947582

This book examines how people respond to, experience and think about risk. The authors stress the need to take into acco

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Natural Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability: Floods and slum life in Indonesia

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Accidental Gamblers: Risk and Vulnerability in Vidarbha Cotton 1108832296, 9781108832298

Vidarbha – a major cotton growing region in central India has been the epicentre of a protracted agrarian crisis. Chroni

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Neoliberalism and Everyday Life 9780773581050

A penetrating analysis and critique of the neoliberal policies that prompted the global economic crisis of 2008.

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Vulnerability and Valour: A Gendered Analysis of Everyday Life in the Dead Sea Scrolls Communities 9780567672247, 9780567672278, 9780567672254

Jessica M. Keady uses insights from social science and gender theory to shed light on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the commu

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A Fragile Life: Accepting Our Vulnerability 9780226440019

It is perhaps our noblest cause, and certainly one of our oldest: to end suffering. Think of the Buddha, Chuang Tzu, or

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Disaster Risk and Vulnerability : Mitigation Through Mobilizing Communities and Partnerships [1 ed.] 9780773583825, 9780773545298

From the Asian tsunami of 2004 to hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Tohoku earthquake of 2011, our century has been frau

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Vulnerability and the Corporate Immune System: An Integrated and Systemic Approach to Risk Management 3031302532, 9783031302534

Companies are exposed to a large number of risks from different sources such as globalization, deregulation, environment

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Adolescent Risk and Vulnerability: Concepts and Measurement [Paperback ed.] 030907620X, 9780309076203

Adolescents obviously do not always act in ways that serve their own best interests, even as defined by them. Sometimes

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Disaster Risk and Vulnerability: Mitigation through Mobilizing Communities and Partnerships 9780773587069

Why communities and institutions need to work together to reduce disaster risk.

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