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List of contributors | ||
Foreword | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
1 | Introduction: The basic question, its importance, and how it is addressed in this volume | 1 |
2 | Studying disaster: Changes in the main conceptual tools | 11 |
3 | Again and again: Is a disaster what we call a "disaster"? | 19 |
4 | Disaster as systemic event and social catalyst | 31 |
5 | Issues in the definition and delineation of disasters and disaster areas | 56 |
First Reaction Article | 73 | |
6 | Excluded perspectives in the social construction of disaster | 75 |
Reactions to Reaction | 93 | |
7 | Reply to Hewitt | 95 |
8 | Debate - Test - Dummy: Reaction to Hewitt | 99 |
9 | A reply to Hewitt's critique | 101 |
10 | What I see in Hewitt's mirror in rereading my paper | 104 |
11 | Coming to terms with community disaster | 109 |
12 | Disaster and the theory of social order | 127 |
13 | Future disasters, future definitions | 146 |
14 | Legislators, interpreters, and disasters: The importance of how as well as what is a disaster | 160 |
15 | Global changes and the definition of disaster | 177 |
Second Reaction Article | 195 | |
16 | Definitions and the development of a theoretical superstructure for disaster research | 197 |
Reactions to Reaction | 217 | |
17 | On the concept of disaster: A response, a slight recovery, and less reconstruction | 219 |
18 | Reply to Perry's reaction paper | 222 |
19 | Comments on Perry's comments | 226 |
20 | A plea for heterodoxy: Response to Perry's remarks | 229 |
21 | Disasters, social change, and adaptive systems | 231 |
Epilogue: Where we have been and where we might go | 234 | |
Bibliography | 274 | |
Index | 300 |
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