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Marie Aronsson-Storrier
and
Rasmus Dahlberg
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Published:
21 Jan 2022
Page Range:
xv–xvi
Collection:
Law 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100307.00007
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Defining Disaster
Edited by
Marie Aronsson-Storrier
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Rasmus Dahlberg
Monograph Book
Published:
21 Jan 2022
Print ISBN:
9781839100291
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9781839100307
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100307
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264
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Law 2022
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Table of Contents
Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
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Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1: On disaster: disciplines, domains and definitions
Chapter 2: Prologue: the sociology of disaster - a US perspective on the transformational conceptualization embedded in a discipline
Part I: Disciplines
Chapter 3: Disaster anthropology: vulnerability, process and meaning
Chapter 4: Keep the curtains drawn! Event, process and disaster in international law
Chapter 5: Positioning social work in relation to disasters: a social notion running along a continuum
Chapter 6: Defining the role of public health in disasters and emergency management
Chapter 7: Disaster in engineering and earthquake science
Chapter 8: Defining disaster in volcanology
Part II: Domains
Chapter 9: Whose views matter? For a pluralistic approach to understanding disasters
Chapter 10: Drought, famine and disasters
Chapter 11: Defining disasters through international space governance
Chapter 12: Disaster definitions from an Arctic perspective
Chapter 13: Disaster movies: definitions, filmography and three analyses
Chapter 14: Systemic disasters: considering the whole and not constituent parts
Chapter 15: Epilogue: what are disasters not?
Index
Subjects
Development Studies
Law and Development
Environment
Disasters
Environmental Law
Environmental Sociology
Law - Academic
Environmental Law
Law and Development
Law and Society
Research Methods in Law
Research Methods
Research Methods in Law
Sociology and Social Policy
Environmental Sociology
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