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Disasters: A Sociological Approach Hardcover - 2019

by Kathleen Tierney


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  • Title Disasters: A Sociological Approach
  • Author Kathleen Tierney
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Polity Press
  • Date 2019-04-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780745671017 / 0745671012
  • Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.8 x 7 x 1.1 in (24.89 x 17.78 x 2.79 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Disasters - Social aspects, Disasters - Research
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018029797
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.341

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Kathleen Tierney is Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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Hardback. New. Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at its very core. This important book sheds light on the social conditions and on the global, national, and local processes that produce disasters. Topics covered include the social roots of disaster vulnerability, exposure to natural hazards such as hurricanes and tsunamis as a form of environmental injustice, and emerging threats. Written by a leading expert in the field, this book provides the necessary frameworks for understanding hazards and disasters, exploring the contributions of very different social science fields to disaster research and showing how these ideas have evolved over time. Bringing the social aspects of recent devastating disasters to the forefront, Tierney discusses the challenges of conducting research in the aftermath of disasters and critiques the concept of disaster resilience, which… Read More
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