Interpretations of Calamity: From the Viewpoint of Human Ecology

ISBN-13: 9780367350772 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 322 str.

K. Hewitt

Opis

Originally published in 1983, Interpretations of Calamity provides a provocative critique of the ‘dominant view’ of research into natural hazards.

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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

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K. Hewitt