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The Social Roots of Risk
Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience
Kathleen Tierney

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Contents
1Risking More, Losing More: Thinking About Risk and Resilience
2Looking Back: The Evolution of How We Talk About Risk
3A Different Perspective: The Social Production of Risk
4Culture and the Production of Risk
5Organizations, Institutions, and the Production of Risk
6Communities and Societies at Risk
7Defining Resilience in Relation to Risk
8Adaptive Resilience in the Face of Disasters
9Looking Ahead: A Move Toward Safety, or More of the Same?