Confronting Catastrophe
Subtitle: New Perspectives on Natural Disasters
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: December 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780195216950
Subjects: Science / Geography; Earth Sciences - Geography; Science; Natural Disasters; Nature/Ecology; Science/Mathematics
First sentence: 1993: 12-14), the answer is bound to be complex and multifarious. In one sense, disaster is a window on society, a chance to observe the workings of social and cultural processes under an extreme duress that exposes their inner essence.