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Contextualizing Disaster / Gregory V. Button, Mark Schuller.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Disasters in Context.
- Disasters in Context
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 pages).
- Other Title:
- Knowledge Unlatched.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Berghahn Books, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- "Contextualizing Disaster" offers a comparative analysis of six recent highly visible disasters and several slow-burning, hidden, crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. The book argues that, while disasters are increasingly represented by the media as unique, exceptional, newsworthy events, it is a mistake to think of disasters as isolated or discrete occurrences. Rather, building on insights developed by political ecologists, this book makes a compelling argument for understanding disasters as transnational and global phenomena.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- KU Select 2019: HSS Backlist Books
- BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 104123
- ISBN:
- 9781789204773
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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