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La régulation sociale des risques de catastrophe

Ethnographie des quartiers périphériques de La Paz

Studies on Risk and Vulnerability are increasing at a rapid rate. This field of research sheds new light on old paradigms such as social order, power, inequality and poverty as well as on North-South relations. Its expansion is linked to increased vulnerability to hazards and the subsequent rise in disasters, now considered as development problems in both the North and South. 
This book forms part of the new stream of risk and disaster studies by focusing on poor indigenous communities i...


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Editor's note

Photo de couverture Fabien Nathan.

  • Publisher : Graduate Institute Publications
  • Series : eLivres de l’Institut | 1
  • Place of publication : Genève
  • Year of publication : 2012
  • Published on OpenEdition Books : 12 janvier 2012
  • EAN (Print version) : 978-2-940415-91-5
  • Electronic EAN : 978-2-940415-92-2
  • DOI : 10.4000/books.iheid.403

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