ISBN:
9780415178983
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (338 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version What is a Disaster? : A Dozen Perspectives on the Question
DDC:
303.485
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
〈I〉What is a Disaster?〈/I〉 sets out the huge conceptual differences that exist concerning what a disaster is, and presents important implications for both theory, study and practice
Description / Table of Contents:
WHAT IS A DISASTER? Perspectives on the question; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: The basic question, its importance, and how it is addressed in this volume; Part IQuestions in the study of disasters; 2 Studying disaster: Changes in the main conceptual tools; 3 Again and again: Is a disaster what we call a "disaster"?; 4 Disaster as systemic event and social catalyst; 5 Issues in the definition and delineation of disasters and disaster areas; First Reaction Article; 6 Excluded perspectives in the social construction of disaster
Description / Table of Contents:
Reactions to Reaction7 Reply to Hewitt; 8 Debate-Test-Dummy: Reaction to Hewitt; 9 A reply to Hewitt's critique; 10 What I see in Hewitt's mirror in rereading my paper; Part IIFuture conceptions of disasters; 11 Coming to terms with community disaster; 12 Disaster and the theory of social order; 13 Future disasters, future definitions; 14 Legislators, interpreters, and disasters: The importance of how as well as what is a disaster; 15 Global changes and the definition of disaster; Second Reaction Article; 16 Definitions and the development of a theoretical superstructure for disaster research
Description / Table of Contents:
Reactions to Reaction17 On the concept of disaster: A response, a slight recovery, and less reconstruction; 18 Reply to Perry's reaction paper; 19 Comments on Perry's comments; 20 A plea for heterodoxy: Response to Perry's remarks; 21 Disasters, social change, and adaptive systems; Epilogue: Where we have been and where we might go; Bibliography; Index
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