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245		0	_aWhat is a disaster?: perspectives on the question/ _cedited by E.L. Quarantelli
260			_aLondon: _bRoutledge, _c1998.
300			_axiii, 312 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
505			_aIntroduction: 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.
650			_aDisasters--Social aspects
650			_aSocial aspects
650			_aDisaster relief
650			_aDisasters
700			_aQuarantelli, E. L., ed.
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