1st Edition
What is a Disaster? A Dozen Perspectives on the Question
Edited By E.L. Quarantelli
Copyright 1998
326 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
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Are conflict situations such as the ethnic clashes in Yugoslavia or Rwanda, terrorist attacks and riots, the same kind of social crises as those generated by natural and technological happenings such as earthquakes and chemical explosions? In What is a Disaster? , social science disaster researchers from six different disciplines advance their views on what a disaster is. Clashes in conceptions... Read more
Contents Introduction Part 1: Questions in the study of disasters Part 2: Future Conceptions of Disasters Epilogue Bibliography
Biography
E.L. Quarantelli
