What is a disaster?: perspectives on the question/ edited by E.L. Quarantelli
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TextPublication details: London: Routledge, 1998Description: xiii, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780415178983Subject(s): Disasters--Social aspects | Social aspects | Disaster relief | DisastersDDC classification: 363.34 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Introduction: the basic question, its importance, and how it is addressed in this volume / E.L. Quarantelli --
Studying disaster: changes in the main conceptual tools / Claude Gilbert --
Again and again: is a disaster what we call a "disaster"? / Wolf R. Dombrowsky --
Disaster as a systemic event and social catalyst / Gary A. Kreps --
Issues in the definition and delineation of disasters and disaster areas / Boris N. Porfiriev --
Excluded perspectives in the social construction of disaster / Kenneth Hewitt --
Reply to Hewitt / Claude Gilbert --
Debate-test-dummy: reaction to Hewitt / Wold R. Dombrowsky --
A reply to Hewitt's critique / Gary A. Kreps --
What I see in Hewitt's mirror in rereading my paper / Boris N. Porfiriev --
Coming to terms with community disaster / Russell R. Dynes --
Disaster and the theory of social order / Robert A. Stallings --
Future disasters, future definitions / Uriel Rosenthal --
Legislators, interpreters, and disasters: the importance of how as well was what is a disaster / Steve Kroll-Smith, Valerie J. Gunter --
Global changes and the definition of disaster / Anthony Oliver-Smith --
Definitions and the development of a theoretical superstructure for disaster research / Ronald W. Perry --
On the concepts of disaster: a response, a slight recovery, and less reconstruction / Russell R. Dynes --
Reply to Perry's reaction paper / Robert A. Stallings --
Comments on Perry's comments / Uriel Rosenthal --
A plea for heterodoxy: response to Perry's remarks / Steve Kroll-Smith, Valerie J. Gunter --
Disasters, social change, and adaptive systems / Anthony Oliver-Smith.
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