| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 其他
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| Resolving the paradox: Food for thought on the wider dimensions of natural disasters. |
| Weichselgartner J; Sendzimir J
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| 发表日期 | 2004
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| 出处 | Mountain Research and Development 24 (1): 4-9.
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| 出版年 | 2004
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Recent disaster statistics reflect an alarming trend of increasing losses from natural disasters. Typically, the insurance industry, scientific experts, and thus the media, refer to such "external" factors as population increase, the potential for damage in hazard-prone areas, and land use and climate change as the primary causes of this trend. Although these factors increase vulnerability to natural disasters, we argue that "internal" factors such as disaster-related science and policy are also responsible for the inability to stem or reverse the upward trend in disaster damage. The paradox of concurrent increases in economic loss and disaster-related research raises questions about the approaches and tools used in hazard assessment and disaster management. This in turn raises the possibility that progress is being blocked by fundamental conceptual barriers, in addition to profound changes in environmental and social processes, neither of which are adequately being addressed. We conclude with some thought-provoking suggestions for addressing problems in disaster management. |
| 主题 | Risk, Modeling and Society (RMS)
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| 关键词 | Hazard management
historical perspectives
flood prevention
resilience
mitigation
Europe
incsurance
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| URL | http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/7181/
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| 来源智库 | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/128311
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