The vulnerability of cities : natural disasters and social resilience - Pelling, Mark, 1967- (Sterling, Va. : Earthscan Publications, 2003)
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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Keywords: Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Developing countries; Natural disasters -- Developing countries; Disaster relief -- Developing countries; Urbanization -- Social aspects -- Developing countries; Sustainable development -- Developing countries; Urban policy -- Developing countries; Electronic books