Natural Disaster and Development in a Globalizing World
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 4, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780415279574
First sentence: Mason Cooley (1927, in Andrews et al. 1996), made this statement referring to social risk, but Cooley's observation can be applied equally well to highlight the self-destructive tendencies of recent past and contemporary human development.