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Confronting Catastrophe: New Perspectives on Natural Disasters
Confronting Catastrophe New Perspectives on Natural Disasters Author:David Alexander The current models habitually used to interpret disasters are now decades old and relate to a time when society held markedly different views. The author of this provocative new book, a physical geographer and survivor of a major earthquake in southern Italy (1980), reconceptualizes the story of disaster in terms of present-day trends and tenden... more »cies.« less