The Vulnerability of Cities
Subtitle: Natural Disaster and Social Resilience
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781853838293
Subjects: Human geography; Social impact of disasters; Urban & municipal planning; Urban communities; Sociology; Disaster relief; Social Science; Urbanization; Sociology - Urban; Development - Economic Development; Disaster Relief & Rescue Operations; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; Developing countries; Natural disasters; Urban ecology
First sentence: On 10 July 2000, 300 people were killed by a landslide in Manila, the Philippines.