Synopsis
Forces of nature and cultural responses: an introduction.- Ball Lightning: an elusive force of nature.- The ball lightning controversy - Empirical case studies.- How does a series of earthquakes affect academic performance?.- Vulnerability and disaster in Thailand: Scale, power, and collaboration in post-tsunami recovery.- Disaster in paradise: a preliminary investigation of the socio-economic aftermaths of two coastal disasters in Hawaii.- Responses to natural disasters in the Greek and Roman world.- Provisioning capacity: a critical component of vulnerability and resilience under chronic volcanic eruptions.- Jamming with disaster: New Orleans jazz in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.- Two floods compared: Response to and perception of the 1682 and 1715 flooding disasters in the Low Countries.
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