Mapping Vulnerability

by Bankoff, Greg; Frerks, Georg; Hilhorst, Dorothea

• ISBN13: 9781853839641
• ISBN10: 1853839647
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Sustaining the new bioeconomy requires a global biotechnology governance regime to bring a large number of developing countries into the global trading system. Failure to do so will create a ‘genetic divide’ among countries and is likely to intensify publ

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes	vii
List of Contributors	viii
Acknowledgements	xvii
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations	xviii
Introduction: Mapping Vulnerability
Dorothea Hilhorst and Greg Bankoff	1	(9)
1 Theorizing Vulnerability in a Globalized World: A Political Ecological Perspective
Anthony Oliver-Smith	10	(15)
2 The Historical Geography of Disaster: 'Vulnerability' and 'Local Knowledge' in Western Discourse
Greg Bankoff	25	(12)
3 The Need for Rethinking the Concepts of Vulnerability and Risk from a Holistic Perspective: A Necessary Review and Criticism for Effective Risk Management
Omar D Cardona	37	(15)
4 Complexity and Diversity: Unlocking Social Domains of Disaster Response
Dorothea Hithorst	52	(15)
5 The Lower Lempa River Valley, El Salvador: Risk Reduction and Development Project
Allan Lavell	67	(16)
6 El Nino Events, Forecasts and Decision-making
Roger S Pulwarty, Kenneth Broad and Timothy Finan	83	(16)
7 Vulnerable Regions versus Vulnerable People: An Ethiopian Case Study
Linda Stephen	99	(16)
8 From Vulnerability to Empowerment
Annelies Hemans	115	(13)
9 Progress in Analysis of Social Vulnerability and Capacity
Ian Davis	128	(17)
10 Vulnerability Reduction: A Task for the Vulnerable People Themselves
Zenaida Delica-Willison and Robin Willison	145	(14)
11 Macro-economic Concepts of Vulnerability: Dynamics, Complexity and Public Policy
Charlotte Benson	159	(15)
12 Gendering Vulnerability Analysis: Towards a More Nuanced Approach
Maureen Fordham	174	(9)
13 Assessment of Capability and Vulnerability
Ben Wisner	183	(11)
Conclusion: Vulnerability Analysis as a Means of Strengthening Policy Formulation and Policy Practice
Georg Frerks and Stephen Bender	194	(12)
Notes	206	(6)
References	212	(21)
Index	233