Interpretations of Calamity
From the Viewpoint of Human Ecology
Herausgeber: Hewitt, K.
Interpretations of Calamity
From the Viewpoint of Human Ecology
Herausgeber: Hewitt, K.
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Originally published in 1983, Interpretations of Calamity provides a provocative critique of the 'dominant view' of research into natural hazards.
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Originally published in 1983, Interpretations of Calamity provides a provocative critique of the 'dominant view' of research into natural hazards.
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- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- Seitenzahl: 324
- Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
- Gewicht: 458g
- ISBN-13: 9780367350796
- ISBN-10: 0367350793
- Artikelnr.: 69391530
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- Seitenzahl: 324
- Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
- Gewicht: 458g
- ISBN-13: 9780367350796
- ISBN-10: 0367350793
- Artikelnr.: 69391530
K. Hewitt
Foreword Preface Acknowledgements List of Tables Part I: Natural Disaster:
Mischance or Misnomer? 1. The Idea of Calamity in a Techncratic Age 2.
Coping with Frosts, Governments and Disaster Experts: Some Reflections
Based on a New Guinea Experience and a Perusal of the Relevant Literature
3. The Bushmen and the British: Problems of the Identification of Drought
and Responses to Drought 4. Drought in the US Great Plains: Shifting Social
Consequences 5. The Sahelian Drought: Social Sciences and the Political
Economy of Underdevelopment 6. Underdevelopment and Hazards in Historical
Perspective: An Irish Case Study Part II: Hazards in Context: Problems of
Agricultural Development and Food Security 7. Interpreting the Role of
Hazards in Agriculture 8. The Place of Climatic Hazards in Food Scarcity: A
Case Study of Belize 9. Food Production Under Conditions of Increased
Uncertainty: The Settlement of the Paraguayan Chaco by Mennonite Farmers
10. Climactic Hazards and Agricultural Development: Some Aspects of the
Problem in the Indo-Pakistan Sub-Continent 11. Wheat Yields and Weather
Hazards in the Soviet Union 12. Climactic Hazards and Canadian Wheat Trade
Part III: Alternative Frameworks 13. On the Poverty of Theory: Natural
Hazards Research in Context 14. Global Disasters, A Radical Interpretation
15. A General Approach to the Identification of Hazards and Responses
Author Index Subject Index
Mischance or Misnomer? 1. The Idea of Calamity in a Techncratic Age 2.
Coping with Frosts, Governments and Disaster Experts: Some Reflections
Based on a New Guinea Experience and a Perusal of the Relevant Literature
3. The Bushmen and the British: Problems of the Identification of Drought
and Responses to Drought 4. Drought in the US Great Plains: Shifting Social
Consequences 5. The Sahelian Drought: Social Sciences and the Political
Economy of Underdevelopment 6. Underdevelopment and Hazards in Historical
Perspective: An Irish Case Study Part II: Hazards in Context: Problems of
Agricultural Development and Food Security 7. Interpreting the Role of
Hazards in Agriculture 8. The Place of Climatic Hazards in Food Scarcity: A
Case Study of Belize 9. Food Production Under Conditions of Increased
Uncertainty: The Settlement of the Paraguayan Chaco by Mennonite Farmers
10. Climactic Hazards and Agricultural Development: Some Aspects of the
Problem in the Indo-Pakistan Sub-Continent 11. Wheat Yields and Weather
Hazards in the Soviet Union 12. Climactic Hazards and Canadian Wheat Trade
Part III: Alternative Frameworks 13. On the Poverty of Theory: Natural
Hazards Research in Context 14. Global Disasters, A Radical Interpretation
15. A General Approach to the Identification of Hazards and Responses
Author Index Subject Index
Foreword Preface Acknowledgements List of Tables Part I: Natural Disaster:
Mischance or Misnomer? 1. The Idea of Calamity in a Techncratic Age 2.
Coping with Frosts, Governments and Disaster Experts: Some Reflections
Based on a New Guinea Experience and a Perusal of the Relevant Literature
3. The Bushmen and the British: Problems of the Identification of Drought
and Responses to Drought 4. Drought in the US Great Plains: Shifting Social
Consequences 5. The Sahelian Drought: Social Sciences and the Political
Economy of Underdevelopment 6. Underdevelopment and Hazards in Historical
Perspective: An Irish Case Study Part II: Hazards in Context: Problems of
Agricultural Development and Food Security 7. Interpreting the Role of
Hazards in Agriculture 8. The Place of Climatic Hazards in Food Scarcity: A
Case Study of Belize 9. Food Production Under Conditions of Increased
Uncertainty: The Settlement of the Paraguayan Chaco by Mennonite Farmers
10. Climactic Hazards and Agricultural Development: Some Aspects of the
Problem in the Indo-Pakistan Sub-Continent 11. Wheat Yields and Weather
Hazards in the Soviet Union 12. Climactic Hazards and Canadian Wheat Trade
Part III: Alternative Frameworks 13. On the Poverty of Theory: Natural
Hazards Research in Context 14. Global Disasters, A Radical Interpretation
15. A General Approach to the Identification of Hazards and Responses
Author Index Subject Index
Mischance or Misnomer? 1. The Idea of Calamity in a Techncratic Age 2.
Coping with Frosts, Governments and Disaster Experts: Some Reflections
Based on a New Guinea Experience and a Perusal of the Relevant Literature
3. The Bushmen and the British: Problems of the Identification of Drought
and Responses to Drought 4. Drought in the US Great Plains: Shifting Social
Consequences 5. The Sahelian Drought: Social Sciences and the Political
Economy of Underdevelopment 6. Underdevelopment and Hazards in Historical
Perspective: An Irish Case Study Part II: Hazards in Context: Problems of
Agricultural Development and Food Security 7. Interpreting the Role of
Hazards in Agriculture 8. The Place of Climatic Hazards in Food Scarcity: A
Case Study of Belize 9. Food Production Under Conditions of Increased
Uncertainty: The Settlement of the Paraguayan Chaco by Mennonite Farmers
10. Climactic Hazards and Agricultural Development: Some Aspects of the
Problem in the Indo-Pakistan Sub-Continent 11. Wheat Yields and Weather
Hazards in the Soviet Union 12. Climactic Hazards and Canadian Wheat Trade
Part III: Alternative Frameworks 13. On the Poverty of Theory: Natural
Hazards Research in Context 14. Global Disasters, A Radical Interpretation
15. A General Approach to the Identification of Hazards and Responses
Author Index Subject Index