Defining disaster : disciplines and domains / edited by Marie Aronsson-Storrier and Rasmus Dahlberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aronsson-Storrier, Marie, editor.

Dahlberg, Rasmus, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disasters.

Disasters--Law and legislation.

Public safety.

Emergency management.

Emergency management--Law and legislation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

On disaster : disciplines, domains and definitions / Marie Aronsson-Storrier and Rasmus Dahlberg

Prologue: The sociology of disaster : a US perspective on the transformational conceptualization embedded in a discipline / Tricia Wachtendorf

Disaster anthropology : vulnerability, process and meaning / Kristoffer Albris

Keep the curtains drawn! : event, process and disaster in international law / Marie Aronsson-Storrier

Positioning social work in relation to disasters : a social notion running along a continuum / Carin Björngren Cuadra

Defining the role of public health in disasters and emergency management / Kevin Blanchard

Disaster in engineering and earthquake science / Sólveig Thorvaldsdóttir

Defining disaster in volcanology / Jazmin P. Scarlett, Ailsa Naismith and Ashleigh Rushton

Whose views matter? : for a pluralistic approach to understanding disasters / Loïc Le Dé and J.C. Gaillard

Drought, famine and disasters / Olivier Rubin

Defining disasters through international space governance / Nathan Clark

Disaster definitions from an Arctic perspective / Natalia Andreassen and Rebecca Pincus

Disaster movies : definitions, filmography and three analyses / Rasmus Dahlberg and Uta Reichardt

Systemic disasters : considering the whole and not constituent parts / Livhuwani David Nemakonde

Epilogue: What are disasters not? / Ilan Kelman.

Notes:

"The idea of this publication originates from fruitful and, at times, frustrating ... discussions at the first three North European Emergency and Disaster Studies (NEEDS) events held in Copenhagen in 2015 and 2017 and in Amsterdam in 2018"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from title screen (Elgaronline, viewed on February 2, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Defining disaster.

ISBN:

9781839100307

1839100303

Publisher Number:

40030975364

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.