▪ Abstract Recent perspectives in anthropological research define a disaster as a
process/event involving the combination of a potentially destructive agent (s) from the …

This chapter presents a critical review of race, class, and ethnicity as used in both historic
and recent disaster research. Using critical race theory, political ecology, and related social …

Purpose This paper explores the building blocks of risk governance systems that are
equipped to manage systemic risk in the 21st century. Whilst approaches to risk governance …

Each of these Handbooks survey the field in a critical manner, evaluating theoretical models
in light of the best available empirical evidence. Distinctively sociological approaches are …

El concepto de" construcción social" asociado con los riesgos ha demostrado una utilidad
analítica cada vez mayor entre los estudiosos de los desastres. Sin embargo, como es …

Climate change is producing profound changes globally. Yet we still know little about how it
affects real people in real places on a daily basis because most of our knowledge comes …

Climate change, although a natural phenomenon, is accelerated by human activities.
Disaster policy response to climate change is dependent on a number of factors, such as …

The 1994 Northridge, California earthquake has proven to be one of the most costly
disasters in United States history. Federal and state assistance programmes received some …

The modernist usage of the word crisis conveys the idea of an event that acts as a historical
judgment, marks an epochal transition, and sometimes leads to a utopian era. Furthermore …

Purpose–This article sets out to address the response of traditional societies in facing
natural hazards through the lens of the concept of resilience. Design/methodology/approach …