Disaster Studies – serie
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8 produkter
Dealing with Disasters from Early Modern to Modern Times
Cultural Responses to Catastrophes
Av Hanneke van Asperen, Lotte Jensen
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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Disasters are as much cultural as natural phenomena. For centuries, news about catastrophic events has been disseminated through media such as chronicles, pamphlets, newspapers, poems, drawings, and prints. Nowadays, we are overwhelmed with news about the cataclysmic effects of recent forest fires, …
Toward a Criminology of Disaster
What We Know and What We Need to Find Out
Av Kelly Frailing, Dee Wood Harper
Inbunden, 2017
1316 kr
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This book puts forward a comprehensive criminology of disaster by drawing - and building - upon existing theories which attempt to explain disaster crime. Although antisocial behaviour in disasters has long been viewed as a rarity, the authors present ample evidence that a variety of crime occurs …
People’s Response to Disasters in the Philippines
Vulnerability, Capacities, and Resilience
Av J. Gaillard
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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This book provides a critical perspective on people's response to disasters in the Philippines. It draws upon an array of case studies to discuss people's vulnerability, capacities and resilience in facing a wide range of different hazards.
Disability and Disaster
Explorations and Exchanges
Inbunden, 2015
1316 kr
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Disability and Disaster adds disaster research to the expanding area of disability studies. The book includes writings by international scholars and first-hand narratives from individuals with disabilities affected by disasters around the globe. Hazards described in these narratives include …
People’s Response to Disasters in the Philippines
Vulnerability, Capacities, and Resilience
Av J. Gaillard
Häftad, 2015
552 kr
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This book provides a critical perspective on people's response to disasters in the Philippines. It draws upon an array of case studies to discuss people's vulnerability, capacities and resilience in facing a wide range of different hazards.
Toward a Criminology of Disaster
What We Know and What We Need to Find Out
Av Kelly Frailing, Dee Wood Harper
Häftad, 2019
334 kr
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This book puts forward a comprehensive criminology of disaster by drawing - and building - upon existing theories which attempt to explain disaster crime. Although antisocial behaviour in disasters has long been viewed as a rarity, the authors present ample evidence that a variety of crime occurs …
Epidemic Disease and Society in the Premodern Low Countries
Inequality and Community
Inbunden, 2026
2586 kr
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In this book, evidence from a long-run history of epidemic-society interaction in the Low Countries shows that most recurring outbreaks were accommodated by communities, and most reactions, responses, and changes seen were the product of frequent and incremental adaptations, sometimes in periods …
Dealing with Disasters from Early Modern to Modern Times
Cultural Responses to Catastrophes
Av Hanneke van Asperen, Lotte Jensen
Inbunden, 2023
2197 kr
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Disasters are as much cultural as natural phenomena. For centuries, news about catastrophic events has been disseminated through media such as chronicles, pamphlets, newspapers, poems, drawings, and prints. Nowadays, we are overwhelmed with news about the cataclysmic effects of recent forest fires, …
