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The Legacy of Hurricane Mitch: Lessons from Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Honduras
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Ensor, Marisa O. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCH; JFFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Around the world disaster vulnerability is on the rise. The incidence and intensity of disasters have increased in recent decades with lives being shattered and resources being destroyed across broad geographic regions each year. As it swept across the Honduran landscape, the exceptional size, power and duration of Hurricane Mitch abruptly and brutally altered the already diminished economic, social, and environmental conditions of the population. In the aftermath of the disaster a group of seven socio-environmental scientists set out to investigate the root causes of the heightened vulnerability that characterized pre-Mitch Honduras, the impact of the catastrophe on the ... Read more
Around the world disaster vulnerability is on the rise. The incidence and intensity of disasters have increased in recent decades with lives being shattered and resources being destroyed across broad geographic regions each year. As it swept across the Honduran landscape, the exceptional size, power and duration of Hurricane Mitch abruptly and brutally altered the already diminished economic, social, and environmental conditions of the population. In the aftermath of the disaster a group of seven socio-environmental scientists set out to investigate the root causes of the heightened vulnerability that characterized pre-Mitch Honduras, the impact of the catastrophe on the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816527847
SKU
V9780816527847
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99-15
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