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| Foreword | |
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| Preface List of figures and tables | |
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| Framework and Theory | |
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| The challenge of disasters and our approach | |
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| In at the deep end | |
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| Conventional views of disaster | |
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| What is vulnerability? | |
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| Changes since the first edition | |
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| The International decade for natural disaster reduction | |
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| Convergence and critique | |
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| Audiences | |
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| Scope and plan of the book | |
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| Limits and assumptions | |
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| The disaster pressure and release model | |
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| The nature of vulnerability | |
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| Cause and effects in the disaster pressure model | |
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| Time and the chain of explanation | |
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| Limits to our knowledge | |
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| Global trends and dynamic pressures | |
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| Uses of the pressure and release model | |
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| Access to resources and coping in adversity | |
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| Access to resources - an introduction | |
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| New thinking since 1994 | |
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| 'Normal life' - the formal Access model | |
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| Coping and access to safety | |
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| Vulnerability and Hazard Types | |
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| Famine and natural hazards | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Famines and their causes | |
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| Explanations of famine | |
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| Complex emergencies, policy famines and human rights | |
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| Causes, pressures, unsafe conditions and famine | |
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| Access and famines | |
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| Policy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Biological hazards | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What are biological hazards? | |
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| Limitations to our treatment of biological hazards | |
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| Biological links with other hazards | |
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| Livelihoods, resources and disasters | |
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| Vulnerability-creating processes | |
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| Pressures affecting defences against biological hazards | |
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| Root causes and pressures | |
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| Steps toward risk reduction | |
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| Floods | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Floods as known risks | |
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| Disastrous outcomes for vulnerable people | |
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| Floods and vulnerability | |
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| Summary: flood prevention and mitigation | |
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| Coastal storms | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The physical hazard | |
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| Patterns of vulnerability | |
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| Case-studies | |
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| Policy responses | |
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| Earthquakes and volcanoes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Classic case-studies: Guatemala and Mexico | |
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| Recent case-studies | |
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| Volcanoes and related hazards | |
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| Goma, Congo, eruption of Mount Nyiragongo 2002 | |
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| Policy response and mitigation | |
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| Towards a Safer Environment | |
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| Towards a safer environment | |
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| Towards a safer environment: are statements of intent merely hot air? | |
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| From Yokohama to Johannesburg via Geneva | |
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| Risk reduction objectives | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |