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Book Chapter
What is a Disaster?
2004
Overview
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction
The Magnitude of the Damage Produced by the Event
Exceptional External Agent
The Nature of the Agent
Threat to the Social System
Social Vulnerability
Post‐Modern Perspective
Disasters are Political Events
Scapegoating in Disasters
A Disaster Unmasks False Myths
Victims or Damaged?
Compensations in Disasters
References
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Subject
ISBN
9780470021231, 0470021233
