Confronting Catastrophe: New Perspectives on Natural Disasters

Confronting Catastrophe: New Perspectives on Natural Disasters
ISBN-10
0195216954
ISBN-13
9780195216950
Category
Science
Pages
282
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Author
David E. Alexander

Description

The current models habitually used to interpret disasters are now decades old and relate to a time when society held markedly different views. The author of this provocative new book, a physical geographer and survivor of a major earthquake in southern Italy (1980), reconceptualizes the story of disaster in terms of present-day trends and tendencies.

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