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Private finance --- Developing countries --- 14.01 --- Microfinanciering en -verzekeringen ; Algemeen --- C5 --- belegging --- Belgische Raiffeissenstichting --- Maatschappelijke organisaties en maatschappelijk leven

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Social security. --- Sécurité sociale --- AA / International- internationaal --- 368.40 --- 368 --- 14.01 --- Sociale voorzorg en verzekeringen. Sociale zekerheid: algemeenheden. --- Verzekeringswezen --- Microfinanciering en -verzekeringen ; Algemeen --- 368 Verzekeringswezen --- Sécurité sociale --- Sociale voorzorg en verzekeringen. Sociale zekerheid: algemeenheden

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Raging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million people are affected by these and other disasters, which cause loss of life and damage to personal property, agriculture, and infrastructure. So what can be done? The key to understanding the causes of disasters and mitigating their impacts is the concept of 'vulnerability'. Mapping Vulnerability analyses 'vulnerability' as a concept central to the way we understand disasters and their magnitude and impact. Written and edited by a distinguished group of disaster scholars and practitioners, this book is a counterbalance to those technocratic approaches that limit themselves to simply looking at disasters as natural phenomena. Through the notion of vulnerability, the authors stress the importance of social processes and human-environmental interactions as causal agents in the making of disasters. They critically examine what renders communities unsafe - a condition, they argue, that depends primarily on the relative position of advantage or disadvantage that a particular group occupies within a society's social order. The book also looks at vulnerability in terms of its relationship to development and its impact on policy and people's lives, through consideration of selected case studies drawn from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Mapping Vulnerability is essential reading for academics, students, policymakers and practitioners in disaster studies, geography, development studies, economics, environmental studies and sociology.

Disaster relief --- Natural disasters --- Human beings --- Political ecology --- Secours aux victimes de catastrophes --- Catastrophes naturelles --- Homme --- Ecologie politique --- Effect of environment on --- Influence de l'environnement --- Microfinanciering en -verzekeringen Algemeen --- 14.01 --- Microfinanciering en -verzekeringen ; Algemeen --- Social ecology --- Green movement --- Homo sapiens --- Human race --- Humanity (Human beings) --- Humankind --- Humans --- Man --- Mankind --- People --- Hominids --- Persons --- Natural calamities --- Disasters --- Disaster assistance --- Emergency assistance in disasters --- Emergency relief --- Emergency management --- Human services --- Case studies --- Disaster relief - Case studies --- Natural disasters - Case studies --- Human beings - Effect of environment on - Case studies --- Political ecology - Case studies

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Microfinance --- AFR / Africa - Afrika - Afrique --- 333.134 --- 333.130.0 --- 14.01 --- Volksbanken. --- Private banken: algemeen. Studies over de organisatie en de techniek van de banken --- Microfinanciering en -verzekeringen ; Algemeen --- Micro-finance --- Microcredit --- Microenterprise lending --- Microlending --- Financial services industry --- Small business --- Volksbanken --- Finance --- Afrique --- Microfinance - Africa, French-speaking West --- Afrique occidentale --- Cooperative credit --- Histoire

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Development aid. Development cooperation --- Business policy --- Developing countries --- International business enterprises --- Non-governmental organizations --- Poor --- Economic assistance --- Globalization --- Social aspects --- Economic aspects --- 14.01 --- Microfinanciering en -verzekeringen ; Algemeen --- Business enterprises, International --- Corporations, International --- Global corporations --- International corporations --- MNEs (International business enterprises) --- Multinational corporations --- Multinational enterprises --- Transnational corporations --- Business enterprises --- Corporations --- Joint ventures --- International business enterprises - Social aspects - Developing countries --- Non-governmental organizations - Developing countries --- Poor - Developing countries --- Economic assistance - Developing countries --- Globalization - Economic aspects - Developing countries