What is a Disaster?: A Dozen Perspectives on the Question - Softcover

 
9780415178990: What is a Disaster?: A Dozen Perspectives on the Question
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ISBN 10: 0415178991 ISBN 13: 9780415178990
Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

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 are highlighted, through the book's unique juxtaposition of the authors separately advanced views. A reaction paper to each set of views is presented by an experienced disaster researcher; in turn, the original authors provide a response to what has been said about their views.
What is a Disaster? sets out the huge conceptual differences that exist concerning what a disaster is, and presents important implications for both theory, study and practice.

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E.L. Quarantelli

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415178991
ISBN 13 
9780415178990
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
326
Editor
Quarantelli E.L.

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