What is a Disaster?

What is a Disaster?

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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 are...

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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 are...

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  • Accessibility Summary: What is a Disaster? is working towards, but does not yet fully meet the AA level of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. It is a complex book with images, tables, lists, footnotes, endnotes, references, cross-references, backlinks and hyperlinks. Some images and tables may appear on pages different from the print version. No images have short descriptions. Linked DOIs are provided, but not uniquely identified. In-text citations are linked, however backlinks only return to the first in-te...
  • Access Mode: Visual, Auditory
  • Access Mode Sufficient: Visual
  • Accessibility Feature: ARIA roles provided, Index navigation, Next / Previous structural navigation, Print-equivalent page numbering, Publisher contact for further accessibility information, Short alternative textual descriptions, Single logical reading order, Table of contents navigation
  • ISBN: 9781134682256
  • Publication Date: 27 Jun 2005
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Product language: English
  • Drm Setting: DRM