Disaster Deaths: Trends, Causes and Determinants

This book investigates the tragic deaths caused by natural disasters at different geographic scales, using key disaster concepts and classification of disasters to understand the high mortality rates and various factors associated with these deaths. It offers a comprehensive analysis of disaster deaths, including trends, circumstances, causes, and determinants, and suggests important policy implications for disaster managers and policy makers. Suitable for both technical and nontechnical readers, the book provides new and critical insights into deaths precipitated by natural disasters.

Format: Hardback
Length: 184 pages
Publication date: 31 December 2020
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book delves into a comprehensive examination of the tragic consequences of natural disasters, exploring their impact at various geographic scales. By employing key disaster concepts and categorizing disasters, it seeks to understand the underlying factors contributing to the high mortality rates associated with these events.

Deaths are a direct and immediate consequence of disaster events, posing significant challenges for disaster managers and policymakers globally. To address this issue, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of various aspects of disaster deaths, including trends, circumstances, causes, and determinants at global, regional, national, and subnational levels. It provides a holistic perspective on disaster mortality, which has been lacking in the research literature.

The book not only fills a significant research gap but also offers valuable policy implications for disaster managers and policymakers working in multilateral, bilateral, local, and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs). These policies encompass effective strategies to mitigate the risk of deaths caused by natural disasters, which are explored through chapters written in a clear and accessible style. By drawing upon case studies of past major disasters as well as recent ones, the book provides fresh and critical insights into the deaths precipitated by natural disasters.

Suitable for both technical and non-technical readers, this book has a broader appeal and will be valuable to practitioners, researchers, students, and activists in the field of hazards and disasters who are interested in studying mortality due to extreme natural events.

Weight: 428g
Dimension: 160 x 241 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367196264