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An island characteristic: derivate vulnerabilities to indigenous and exogenous hazards

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Island development policies need to take account of recurrently high proportional impacts of natural hazards that are set to increase. Assistance could best be considered as expiatory measures against perpetrations of former world powers; the occupation and exploitation of islands in history having played a part in present-day vulnerabilities of communities to an impressive variety of indigenous hazards. exogenous hazards of invasion and appropriation cannot be regarded only as past events because, for some islands, they are continuing, and because aspects of past exploitations continue for today's occupiers as derivative vulnerabilities. one islander describes the heightened significance of events in places of geographic smallness

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Call Number

051 SHI-3(1) 2009

Publisher

: ., 2009

Collation

133 hlm.: ilus.; 25 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

18346049

Classification

051

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Edition

Volume 3, Numbers 1-2 2009

Subject(s)

Vulnerability
Indigenous
Exogenous Hazards

Specific Detail Info

Volume 3, Numbers 1-2 2009 hal. 3-15

Statement of Responsibility

Lewis, James

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