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Alexander David

Confronting catastrophe : New perspectives on natural disasters - Oxford Oxford University Press 2000 - 282p v

Table of contents
Preface;
Introduction;
Definitions;
The study of disaster;
Society and culture;
Past, present and future;
Technology;
economics and logistics;
Moral and philosophical issues;
Worlds apart;
Finem respice;
Bibliography;
Index.

ISBN: 9781903544013

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Natural Disasters - A Historical Study2. Natural Disasters - Impact - Cultural - Economic - Historical Changes - Society3. Natural Disasters - Effect - New Technologies - Developing - Developed Countries

Dewey Class. No.: 344.046000 / ALE