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Understanding Vulnerability - South Asian Perspectives. Edited by John Twigg and Mihir Bhatt
Each year more than 130 million people are affected by natural hazards such as floods, earthquakes, droughts and cyclones. Nearly all of these disaster victims live in the poorer countries of the Third World, where each year more and more people become vulnerable to hazards because of changes in their social, economic, cultural and political environment.
In recent years, researchers and development agencies have begun to investigate why certain groups of people are more vulnerable to disasters than others, but relatively little work has been done on vulnerability in South Asia where more than half the world's disaster victims live.
Understanding Vulnerability breaks new ground by exploring these issues from a South Asian standpoint, presented in the form of case studies and essays by experts from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka
