Coping with Regional Vulnerability Preventing and Mitigating Damages from Environmental Disasters /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hagihara, Kiyoko (Editor), Asahi, Chisato (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, 4
• Subjects: Social policy.; Environmental economics.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Economics.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Social Policy.; Environmental Economics.

Whether a natural event turns into a disaster depends on the severity of the hazard as well as the condition of the social sphere of its potential victims, i.e., vulnerability. We focus on regional vulnerability considering the fact that regional socioeconomic conditions determine the aspects of the...