The vulnerability of cities [electronic resource] : natural disasters and social resilience / Mark Pelling.
By: Pelling, Mark.
Publisher: Sterling, Va. : Earthscan Publications, 2003Description: xi, 212 p.Other title: Natural disasters and social resilience.Subject(s): Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Developing countries![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sect. I. Cities and Environmental Risk -- 1. Tracing the Roots of Urban Risk and Vulnerability -- 2. Cities as Sites for Disaster -- 3. Social Vulnerability in the City -- 4. Urban Governance and Disaster -- Sect. II. The Case Studies -- 5. Maintaining Civil Society in a Liberal Democracy: Bridgetown, Barbados -- 6. Post-socialism and Barriers to Building a Civil Society: Georgetown, Guyana -- 7. Patrimonial Regimes and the Maintenance of a Constructive Civil Society: Santo Domingo, The Dominican Republic -- Sect. III. Towards Safer Cities -- 8. Action for Safer Cities.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.