Piketty, Thomas <br/><br/>
Capital in the first century / 
Thomas Piketty 
 - London ;  London :  The Belknap Press of Harvard University,  2017. 
 - xi, 793 p. :  ill. ;  20 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Paradigms of risk /  Does global environmental change cause vulnerability to disaster? /  Changes in capitalism and global shifts in the distribution of hazard and vulnerability /  Gender, disaster and development: the necessity for integration /  Natural disasters, adaptive capacity and development in the twenty-first century /  Actors in risk /  Beyond disaster, beyond diplomacy /  Insurance industry: can it cope with catastrophe? /  PART IV. LOCAL CONTEXTS AND GLOBAL PRESSURES --  Social construction of natural disaster: Egypt and the UK /  Understandings of catastrophe: the landslide at La Josefina, Ecuador /  Vulnerability reduction and the community-based approach: a Philippines study /  Risk regime change and political entrepreneurship: river management in the Netherlands and Bangladesh /  Disaster as manifestation of unresolved development challenges: the Marmara earthquake, Turkey /  Ecological reconstruction of the upper reaches of the Yangtze river /  PART V. CONCLUSION --  Emerging concerns /  Mark Pelling --  W. Neil Adger,  Nick Brooks --  Ben Wisner --  Maureen Fordham --  Mohammed H.I. Dore,  David Etkin --  Ian Christoplos --  Ilan Kelman --  Julian E. Salt --  Jacqueline Homan --  Arthur Morris --  Katrina Allen --  Jeroen Warner --  Aplaslan Özerdem --  Chen Guojie --  Mark Pelling  PART I. INTRODUCTION --  PART II. GLOBAL PROCESSES AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISK --  PART III. INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE AND VULNERABILITY -- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674430006  
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002011567 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Economic development.<br/>Capital.<br/>Income distribution
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD75  / .N396 2003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>332.041  / GOC 2014