From Hazard to Disaster : The Vulnerability of People in South Asia

This volume explores the complex relationships between hazard, vulnerability and disaster for steering the challenges posed by disaster.Divergent to popular conviction and moving beyond technocratic approach, this book argues that natural hazards alone do not result in disasters.When they intersect with the vulnerability of vulnerable people, these hazards turn into disastrous events.Mostly depending on qualitative and comparative investigation, the book contends that various people - men and women, young and old, wealthy and poor as well as people of different social identities, encounter diverse outcomes confronting the same hazard.While transmuting hazards to disaster, social vulnerability plays a crucial role in determining resilience to natural hazards.The main objective of this book is to understand why and how disasters occur as it helps in constructing plans to address their root causes and identifying long-term solutions.The book aims to augment the voices of those vulnerable