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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 »
ISBN-13: 9780195216967
ISBN-10: 0195216962
Publication Date: 12/7/2000
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
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