Disaster by Choice - How our actions turn natural hazards into catastrophes (Kelman Ilan (Professor of Disasters and Health University College London and Professor II University of Agder))(Paperback / softback)
Výrobce: Oxford University Press
EAN: 9780198841357
An earthquake shatters Haiti and a hurricane slices through Texas. We hear that nature runs rampant, seeking to destroy us through these 'natural disasters'. Science recounts a different story, however: disasters are not the consequence of natural causes; they are the consequence of human choices and decisions. We put ourselves in harm's way; we fail to take measures which we know would prevent disasters, no matter what the environment does. This can be both hard to accept, and hard to unravel. A complex of factors shape disasters. They arise from the political processes dictating where and what we build, and from social circumstances which create and perpetuate poverty and discrimination. They develop from the social preference to blame nature for the damage wrought, when in fact events such as earthquakes and storms are entirely commonplace environmental processes. We feel the
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Autor | Ilan Kelman |
Jazyk | anglický |
Nakladatelství | Nakladatelství |
Počet stran | 192 |
Rok vydania | 2022 |
Rok vydání | Rok vydání |
Žánr | Žánr |
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