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Hazard mitigation includes interventions made in advance of disasters to prevent or reduce the potential for physical harm and social disruption. There are two major types of hazard mitigation.
Jan 1, 2015 · 1.1. Opening. Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society presents an exploration of how people interrelate with environmental changes and shocks that are variously within or beyond their ability to alter. It includes accounts based on disaster prevention and response approaches with reference to threats that have become increasingly more prevalent.
- Andrew E. Collins, Bernard Manyena, Bernard Manyena, Janaka Jayawickrama, Janaka Jayawickrama, Saman...
- 2015
Oct 11, 2017 · In this NeuroView, Nelson discusses the major hazards that impede healthy development, focusing in particular on neglect and on children exposed to multiple forms of psychological and biological adversity.
- Charles A. Nelson, Charles A. Nelson
- 2017
The field of human development is an intricate tapestry woven from the threads of biology, psychology, sociology, and culture. It is the study of how individuals evolve physically, cognitively, and emotionally as they progress from infancy to old age.
This is a book about lifespan human development: how people grow, change, and stay the same throughout their lives, from conception to death. When people use the term development, they often mean the transformation from infant to adult. However, development does not end with adulthood.
Mar 4, 2019 · The human development (HD) approach puts the improvement of people’s lives as the central objective of development. This paper provides an overview of major aspects of the approach.
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Dec 1, 2018 · I first present an interdisciplinary theory of social change, culture, and human development that can provide a guide for both research designs and interdisciplinary procedures to assess the implications of social change for culture and human development.
