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xi, 212 p. Sect. I. Cities and Environmental Risk -- 1. Tracing the Roots of Urban Risk and Vulnerability -- 2. Cities as Sites for Disaster -- 3. Social Vulnerability in the City -- 4. Urban Governance and Disaster -- Sect. II. The Case Studies -- 5. Maintaining Civil Society in a Liberal Democracy: Bridgetown, Barbados -- 6. Post-socialism and Barriers to Building a Civil Society: Georgetown, Guyana -- 7. Patrimonial Regimes and the Maintenance of a Constructive Civil Society: Santo Domingo, The Dominican Republic -- Sect. III. Towards Safer Cities -- 8. Action for Safer Cities. Mark Pelling. Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Urban ecology (Sociology) Developing countries Natural disasters Developing countries Disaster relief Developing countries Urbanization Social aspects Developing countries Sustainable development Developing countries Urban policy Developing countries HT243.D44 P45 2003eb 307.76/09172/4 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10128871 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10128871 CaPaEBR 030115 ebr10128871