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Interpretations of Calamity: From the Viewpoint of Human Ecology book cover

1st Edition

Interpretations of Calamity From the Viewpoint of Human Ecology

Edited By K. Hewitt Copyright 1983
324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1983, Interpretations of Calamity provides a provocative critique of the ‘dominant view’ of research into natural hazards. Throughout the world, there are now many people professionally engaged in the mitigation and control of risks & hazards, and the impact of continuing economic development will ensure that they are fully employed. There is a wealth of perspectives... Read more

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

Part I: Natural Disaster: Mischance or Misnomer?

1. The Idea of Calamity in a Techncratic Age, Kenneth Hewitt

2. Coping with Frosts, Governments and Disaster Experts: Some Reflections Based on a New Guinea Experience and a Perusal of the Relevant Literature, Eric Waddell

3. The Bushmen and the British: Problems of the Identification of Drought and Responses to Drought, George E.B. Morren, Jr.

4. Drought in the US Great Plains: Shifting Social Consequences, Richard A. Warrick

5. The Sahelian Drought: Social Sciences and the Political Economy of Underdevelopment, Jean Copans

6. Underdevelopment and Hazards in Historical Perspective: An Irish Case Study, Colm Regan

Part II: Hazards in Context: Problems of Agricultural Development and Food Security

7. Interpreting the Role of Hazards in Agriculture, Kenneth Hewitt

8. The Place of Climatic Hazards in Food Scarcity: A Case Study of Belize, Jerry A. Hall

9. Food Production Under Conditions of Increased Uncertainty: The Settlement of the Paraguayan Chaco by Mennonite Farmers, A. Hecht and J.W. Frezt

10. Climactic Hazards and Agricultural Development: Some Aspects of the Problem in the Indo-Pakistan Sub-Continent

11. Wheat Yields and Weather Hazards in the Soviet Union, Ihor Stebelsky

12. Climactic Hazards and Canadian Wheat Trade, Gordon A. McKay

Part III: Alternative Frameworks

13. On the Poverty of Theory: Natural Hazards Research in Context, Michael Watts

14. Global Disasters, A Radical Interpretation, Paul Susman, Phil O’Keefe and Ben Wisner

15. A General Approach to the Identification of Hazards and Responses, George E.B. Morren, Jr

Author Index

Subject Index

Biography

K. Hewitt

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