Chapter
Risk and resilience
Abstract
Research in health geography is typically concerned with variations in human health across places and spaces. Medical geography typically uses ideas of risk that are also common in fields of medicine and epidemiology and in environmental sciences. The chapter considers risk conceptualized as a combination of hazard and vulnerability as well as opportunity and resilience. Risks are often interpreted as factors that are hazardous for health and …
Authors
Curtis S; Oven KJ
Book title
Routledge Handbook of Health Geography
Pagination
pp. 52-58
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
DOI
10.4324/9781315104584-8