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Résumé :
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Disaster continue on a massive scale. Prediction preparation, relief, and reconstruction have improved but the social causes of disasters remain largely unadressed. At risk reasserts the significance of the human factor in disasters. Establishing that the social, political, and economic environment, the book argues that the disaster migration is rooted in the potential humans have to understand their vulnerability and to common action. Analytical concepts are applied to the 'hazards that become disasters': famines and drought, biological hazards, floods, coastal storms, and earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides. At risk draws some practical as well as some policy conclusions with a view to disaster reduction and the promotion of a safer environment.
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